User jeffbee sums it up better than I do in a sibling comment, but yeah, I've been hearing that since I was at least as young as you are or younger. My conclusi

User jeffbee sums it up better than I do in a sibling comment, but yeah, I've been hearing that since I was at least as young as you are or younger. My conclusion, just as sibling comment, is that it's FUD. No politician would come right out and say that the next generation to retire won't get Social Security; they might as well go buy the tar and a bag of feathers themselves. But they're happy to have someone question the viability of the system. Don't fall for it, as your question would have been a letter-to-the-editor in a newspaper 50 years ago, and here we are still cutting SS checks.