[Rudder]

Why should they want, need, or deserve SS?

Because, damn it, we paid for it!

[Delacon]

No you did.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“Why should they want, need, or deserve SS?”

“Because, damn it, we paid for it!”

True enough, but you didn’t pay for your OWN SS—you paid for your parents’. The government has no contractual nor legal obligation to pay any SS to anyone. It is, in the final analysis, an income transfer program from the young to the old.