HOW WE GOT HERE
Social Security was deliberately mis-explained from the start. There is no pile of money representing what you/I paid in over 45 years of working. The working people pay in and their money pays for the people who are collecting. When first SOLD to the American people there were approximately 14 workers paying in for every person collecting. Today there are 2.5 workers paying in for every person collecting.
To make it even worse, Bush added prescription drug coverage-WITH NO ADDITIONAL FUNDING. Obama added OBAMACARE-WITH FAR FROM ADEQUATE FUNDING.
THE NATIONAL DEBT-MORE IMPOSSIBLE GOVERNMENT BOOKKEEPING.
Again we have been MISLED. We all know that OBAMA added TEN TRILLION DOLLARS TO THE NATIONAL DEBT-DOUBLING THAT MONEY THAT MUST BE REPAID. I for one REALIZE that I simply cannot comprehend what a TRILLION DOLLARS IS. I've had people try to explain it a more than one freight train full of hundred dollar bills. GOERING Hitler's propaganda minister called it the big lie. You say the same thing over and over again and people-COME TO THINK THAT THEY UNDERSTAND IT.
We have been told that CHINA is our largest creditor, YET, ANOTHER LIE. The truth is we owe slightly more to Japan then to China. THE SHOCK IS that we owe 20% of our national debt to Japan and China TOGETHER. SOCIAL SECURITY HOLDS 42% OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. LOOK AT THIS SCAM-you/I have been forced to pay into this ponzi scheme for 45 YEARS. I say forced because like most every other tax in this country it is a PROGRESSIVE TAX-at a middle income level, you pay in far more dollars compared to what you receive then people who SHOW LESS INCOME. What is the level of unreported income-DEPENDS ON WHO IS DOING THE GUESSING. Not only are all of us who are forced to pay into social security getting a poor deal as you could buy the same benefit package for far less if you bought it privately-OUR GOVERNMENT WHO BORROWED YOUR MONEY DECIDED HOW MUCH INTEREST THEY WILL PAY ON THE MONEY THEY BORROWED.

NOTHING CAN MESS THINGS UP THE WAY GOVERNMENT CAN.
TRYING TO BLAME THE REPUBLICANS FOR WHAT WILL AND WHAT MUST HAPPEN IS SIMPLY STUPID.
WE WILL SEE BENEFIT CUTS, AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT THE MONEY WE SENT THEM TO BUY VOTES FROM THE PEOPLE BEFORE US. THE NUMBERS ARE A MATTER OF RECORD-IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT TOMORROW YOU WILL ONE DAY OLDER THAN TODAY AND THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF RETIRED PEOPLE WOULD GROW DUE TO WWII. I PLANED. I PAID TOP RATES INTO SOCIAL SECURITY. I FEAR DUE TO MY SAVINGS, INVESTMENTS, MY GOVERNMENT WORTHY OF ZERO TRUST WILL DECIDE I DO NOT NEED TO RECEIVE THEIR PROMISE CALLED SOCIAL SECURITY. IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING. WE JUST WENT ON MEDICARE. FIRST OF ALL WE PAY TWICE THE MINIMUM THAT OTHERS PAY FOR THE SAME COVERAGE AND WE HAVE NO INFLATION PROTECTION-WHICH OTHER PEOPLE DO. WE TAX SUCCESS AND SUBSIDIZE FAILURE.
THE FACT IS WHEN YOU TAX SOMETHING-HARD WORK-YOU WILL HAVE LESS OF IT. WHEN, YOU SUBSIDIZE SOMETHING YOU WILL HAVE MORE OF IT.

THAT IS HOW WE GOT HERE-OUR GOVERNMENT LED US HERE.