We're getting a little far afield here, but I find all of those "You Big Silly, Social Security Isn't Going Bankrupt" articles, which eventually make the correc

We're getting a little far afield here, but I find all of those "You Big Silly, Social Security Isn't Going Bankrupt" articles, which eventually make the correction that we just won't be getting our expected benefits out of the fund quite a bit like those technically correct "we won't ever run out of oil" stances. It's true, the last few barrels of oil will probably reside in a museum somewhere, priced like a Gaughin, but for all practical purposes ... For all practical purposes, the Boomers have this locust-y feel about them. Not malevolent so much as blindly hungry, leaving little behind. Their consumption and barren futures aren't a concern for them, they'll be dead, and we will, like Coogan, have been robbed on a generational scale. We will hear Lillian Coogan's words in many variations: "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything."