[Oblivion437]

No, we're just banging out schemes and hustles and means to bigger bucks longer. Work now, have fun later. Young people today are pissed to high heaven at their slacker image (fostered by MTV among others) and parents and grand parents are pissed to high heaven at their slacker kids (who won't work, apparently) and they've all banded together and said, "To hell with it, We'll work till we burn out!" It's as Neil Boortz said, you don't have a right to someone else's work, property, talent or time. You didn't pay for it. For that matter, what right have you to a job? If I don't need your services, you have no right demanding I hire you.

Libertarian economics would work the best... With the additional 6.2% I'd keep on pumping it into investments and opportunities until I turned say, 55. My business teacher, through his own thrift, won't need a dime of SS money when he retires.

I'd rather, as Azred said, disband the system.