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Originally Posted by daswig
How many people here actually think that there will be ANYTHING left in SS by the time they retire? I'm prolly older than most here, and the idea of getting half of what I put into SS back out again sounds GREAT to me, since I honestly don't think that I'd actually ever see a dime under the current system.
Half of something is far better than all of nothing.
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I think it was my now near-retirement parents who said exactly that about themselves back when I was but a child.
SS is not in a crisis. It will eventually, maybe in the next 30 years, need to be adjusted slightly for a brief period of time and then it can be adjusted back. There is going to be a slight boom in retirees in about 40 years, after which there will be a decline.
What a waste of power by a President to so obviously and devisively push such an unecessary change.
But hey, atleast it's better than starting an unecessary war. Maybe he'll get distracted with SS and forget to invade Iran. Now that would be a good thing.