While you and me and everyone else were "putting money into Social Security" we were also spending much more money on big government nonsense. This is why we have a $14T National Debt.
It is simply false to say that we who are alive and working today have paid our own way and are entitled to a pension to be paid by future workers. We have not and we aren't.
We, who?
If I had a dollar for every letter I've written and phone call I'd made urging votes against this crap, not to mention the time and money in support of candidates who were against it, I would be independently wealthy. It goes back to the days of the 4 cent stamp.
I don't want a pension, I want my money back.
And I'm sick sh*tless of being called a "burden" on my children and grandchildren when I work, pay my own way, am raising two grandchildren and for all practical purposes a great-grandchild.
I know d@mned well that we are not alone--there are a lot of grandparents raising grandkids.
So someone can stuff the obamacare death panel meme "useless old burden" where they'll need a proctologist to retrieve it.
I expect I'll work until either I can't or I'm dead, but I'm just p.o.ed about being ripped off, especially when I've hit the moving target maximum for a few years, only to have my savings gone because of some cockamamie government policy change just about once a decade shutting down the industry I work in.
Now, to portray those of us who have paid our way and are supporting three (or more!) generations as "old and useless" tells me someone has an agenda to promote, one that leads to death panels to get rid of the old coots--which really works well for the socialists--because we remember when they weren't running things.
Those who have never even tasted freedom think a little sugar on their slavery is sweet, and eliminating those of us who know the difference is an essential step for the totalitarians.