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How is it sustainable if it has to be redefined every few years? How is it sustainable if it will need to be turned into a welfare program resulting in all the

• gnaritas 16y ago
  Lifespans aren't static, nor can the retirement age be. Continual adjustments have to be expected. The whole point of the program was to provide income for old people the last few years of their lives, not to allow them to live for 30 years after retirement. On your last point, you're simply making that up. Assuming you live long enough to reach retirement age, you will get benefits. The idea that you won't get benefits is based on absurd projections that wrongly assume the retirement age will never change. That's simply not going to happen, benefits/age will simply be adjusted to compensate and keep the program for those within a few years of the average lifespan, as it was intended. You've fallen for political scare tactics of those opposed to the very idea of social security because they're opposed to all government assistance and anything even slightly socialist. Benefits simply have to be adjusted so payouts don't exceed payins and we're not using debt to support people. For the boomer generation, that sucks, because they're huge and gen X isn't. For gen X, that's great, because they're small and gen Y is huge.