[CodeToad]

“The people who have paid in to SS had no control over their money being taken. They were all victims of a vast Ponzi scheme with no choice other than to leave the country.”

Really? Just helpless victims? Couldn’t vote to change that system or rebel to get rid of it? Just kick the can down the road?

[driftless2]

Vote to change the system? Rise up? The idea of reforming SS has been around for many decades. But most pols of both major parties were afraid to touch it. Do you think common citizens should have stormed Washington or what? Refuse to pay your taxes?

The American public was sold a Ponzi scheme. How exactly would you expect private citizens to "rise up" when most Americans for many decades thought it was a good idea? Do you want the retirees of today to pay for the sins of the previous generations?