However, the true beneficiaries were the seniors that recieved benefits without paying into the system...the start of it all. My Momo remembers the problems following the Great Depression and the war that undeiably ended it. My Uncle (84 years old) refers to things as "before the war" or "after the war".
"However, the true beneficiaries were the seniors that recieved benefits without paying into the system..."
Any person that receives a SS check is a beneficiary of a welfare system. Try to deny it with the above justification if it makes you feel any better. It is nothing more than income redistribution of earnings to buy votes. Why do you think the biggest welfare demographic in our country is also the most active politically?
Every generation is robbed from to pay the generation prior to them. It is nothing new now. The generation now that is blocking change at the expense of the later generations is doing nothing but saying, "hey we got robbed, so you should be robbed even more!" The fact that they will not be effected by the proposed changes and they still want to make sure we get robbed, speaks volumes.
The more welfare someone recieves, the more interest they have in ensuring their agenda is continually moving forward.