That's a cheap shot if I ever saw one. . . . .
If I understand it correctly, and I may not, the big problem with SS is that its funded mostly by current contributions. I pay in, old people today get a check. 25 years from now, the old people of today will be dead, I'll be getting a check, and the work stiffs will be paying in to fund it. Where the trouble comes in is the Baby Boomers are a big bubble of old people moving into draw check mode and by comparison there are fewer workers paying in, meaning a net loss. Now, the system has a surplus, but not that much of a surplus (and Congress has "borrowed" from the surplus over and over again, so it technically isn't there....). Once the baby boomers are dead, however, the system should work as advertised, no? That is if we can keep the conservatives from moving it to the stock market toenrich their constituentsgive us morerisk of getting soaked"choices."