How the Republicans tore down our country

[NathanTheGreat]

45. I didn't...

I didn't suggest that you aren't owed, don't deserve, or won't get that money. I hope you get every bit you have coming to you, honestly.

We have to begin looking at it that way though, as money owed to people like yourselves. We can't continue to ignore this growing liability with no plan as to how to pay for it. Certainly any sane person will know that the way to pay for it is never to just say scrape off those people who ran this country.

I'm 33 right now, and I've known since I was a child that I wasn't going to be able to rely on SS to sustain me in retirement. I've never even considered it in my future plans, because I know that by the time I get close the retirement age will be about 85.

That's probably how they'll eventually dig out, just keep raising the age as people live longer. I think when they set the age at 65, most people lived to be about 62. Most people my age will probably see 80 or more.

I never suggested taking SS benefits from anyone who's paid into it their whole life...that would be fundamentally unfair.