While the "Fiscal Cliff" looms..............

[Pancho Villa]

SS is not an entitlement. The population paid into that with a specific tax that was earmarked just for that. What congress did was steal that money and now they want to permanently steal it from people by cutting it. All Americans paid into that, it is not an entitlement. You want to cut something cut congresses benefits first. Soc Security would be viable for ever if we lifted the cap and taxed everyone at the same rate not just hitting the middle class alone.

I can't have a discussion with a person that is not oriented to reality.

Here are the relevant facts:

1. There are no sustainable tax rates that would balance the budget, even if you cut the military 100%, given the arc of SS/Medicare/Medicaid. Cuts outside of here buy you time, but I assume we are trying to fix it and not kick the can down the road.
2. If every congresscritter, senator, and cabinet member/the pres made $0/year, it would not be a drop in the bucket.

These are the facts. They are cold and hard, and unforgiving of people of any political bent that wish it were otherwise.

Edit: I'm not shedding any tears since I've grown up in the generation where people understand that we're not getting any SS benefits one way or another, but I can understand if it's frustrating that a fund made to sustain SS has been robbed and now the program is unsustainable. I'm not sure that it would be even with the fund invested conservatively, but hey. It sucks. But that is how things are, and we must deal with it and not how we wish it was.