My point is that whatever the solution is, it needs to be fair to everyone, including younger workers.
I'm not as old as you think - I just started work young. I get screwed big time because I'm not scheduled to retire until well past the last of the baby boom. So assuming that I'm gouging everyone else to get mine is just plain wrong.
How is it fair to stick the post baby boom with $2 Trillion in (intrest compounding) debt?
Fair enough. I apologize for assuming you were older. :)
Point of fact, I don't think it's fair to stick them with the bill, either, but the fact remains that it's unfair to stick US with it, too, on that basis. They have an opportunity here to fix things that their parents didn't take...or didn't see coming, anyway.
It's going to be very difficult to work this out. I think the best that we can hope for is to have everyone a little ticked off than either A)punt the ball downfield or B)stick it to one group in particular. Slowly phasing out SS in it's current form and bringing in some kind of federal 401K is probably the best way to go. I'm no expert, so I don't know how exactly to accomplish it, but I'm sure there is a way.