Originally Posted by
jungle
Fine, but it is important to look at the entire "entitlement" package and come up with workable solutions. You say you don't agree with the analysis presented, yet you fail to come up with any analysis at all from any credible source. Argument from "feeling" just isn't going to get it here. The fact is that numerous studies from numerous sources are all saying the same thing.
The news is not good, and the system is in very poor shape.
Throw in a couple of monkey wrenches in the form of continued high unemployment and double digit inflation and the time horizon could be cut in half.
Look. I'm not arguing from "feeling". I've looked at both sides of the argument and come to a conclusion. You don't agree with me, and that's fine, but I don't appreciate you deciding that because I disagree with you that I haven't thought it through. The fact that I've not given any deep 'analysis' is that it's really not a deep problem, and it's really not hard to fix, except politically. Be honest. You easily see how it can be fixed, you just don't want it to be.
And there are numerous studies from numerous sources that have given some very simple ways to keep SS solvent, and I've listed several of them. The fact of the matter, as I've said repeatedly, is that Social Security is not supposed to be an investment program. It never has been, and it's not now.