What the taxpayer paid for just one of the bank bailouts would have back-stopped SS for 200 years. End the Empire Nation Building Wars and fix our own damn problems here at home. Going after Seniors’ retirement will sweep the GOP out of any political power next election. The third rail of politics still applies. There is a reason the GOP is called the Stupid Party. Trying to redefine Social Security as welfare will undo the Party.
According to the CBO, all the bank bailouts cost $189 billion.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12187/ChangesBaselineProjections.pdf
This would fund SS for about three months. http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/index.html I’m sure you feel strongly about this issue but the facts are not on your side.
I think most people would realize that 50 million elderly and 60 million people total living off of the taxes paid by 131 million working people is a bad, bad idea. Without changes, many of those taxpayers will be leaving this country. We are a transient culture. Those left behind will envy the Greeks.