GregLee
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I have for some time had difficulty understanding this persistent skepticism about SS paying the benefits that have been promised to retired workers. We know that politicians are very wary of implying any threat to the "third rail" SS system, so how could the SS system ever fail to meet its obligations? If the money coming in from SS tax comes to be insufficient to pay current obligations to retirees, legislators will just have to find the money elsewhere. It's that, or we fire them, and politicians really, really do not like to be fired. I'm sure they'll find a way.