ribit,
For me, Social Security is simply a tax ... once it is paid in, it's gone ... never to return. I've said it before and I'll say it, again ... I am more than happy to make a deal with the federal government, right now ... they can quit attempting to blow fake sunshine up my ass, continue to take my Social Security taxes, and give me nothing when I retire, and in exchange, my sons are exempt from ever having to pay into this POS Ponzi scheme.
B.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence