[johniegrad]

Yes. That's the ticket.

I have been forced to pay into this scam for almost 40 years now and will probably never collect a cent of it in return.

That's why my plan for retirement was completed totally independent of any calculation on Social Security.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, mine too. Which is why we’ll both get screwed.

[JoSixChip]

I think the 401k that people save in to supplement their SS income will be the reason they don’t receive any SS. I have a small 401k, only enough to take advantage of the company match. All other savings has been cash. Which comes in handy now that I have been layed off for 15 months.

[Oceander]

Anyone who's in their 40s or younger (such as myself) must simply conclude that Social Security will not be there when we reach retirement age (as distinct from retiring, which our erstwhile "parents" - those "wonderful" baby-boomers - have made well-nigh impossible), and that the monies we pay in as payroll taxes are nothing more than a species of general income tax revenues, and not part of some false, fraudulent, phony "social safety net" that will be there in our old age.

Quite frankly, by now we should be getting used to being played for sukkahs by our parents - it has long been apparent that the baby-boomer generation is one of the worst in history.

[mia]

My husband and I paid into the program for a combined 60 years and we just started collecting. We don’t have much of a choice about depending on social security. What were these idiots thinking when they declined to address the problem of social security when Bush was President? This absolutely makes me sick.