Originally Posted by woj

There is nothing "complex" about the SS issues... the issue is pretty damn simple, it was passed as a program that people pay into, then get their $$ back in retirement...

... but then some brilliant socialist(s) came along, said "we have all this $$ in the SS fund, lets start paying it out"... in effect stealing the $$ from the fund that was supposed to to go for retirees that paid into it few decades later...

... that $$ is now long gone like a fart in the wind, so now more brilliant socialists are proposing to "fix" it by raising SS taxes and/or income limits... and then on top of that they try to muddy the water by calling the SS issue "complex", when it was simply theft by their socialist buddies that occurred few decades earlier that is the root of all the SS problems...