Ken, you are sidestepping the elephant in the room, it is a criminal offense to embezzle pension fund money and then use it to pay annual operating expenses. Until the SS trust fund is decoupled from the Federal Budget and the surplus funds properly invested, these crooks (politicians) are going to continue taking pension fund money and dole it out to every slacker to buy their votes. This behavior is wrong on so many levels.
I am completely against any so called reform that simply increases the amount of money going into the SS Trust fund just so these crooks can fritter the surplus away on so called investments until the next date when outlays are greater than receipts twenty years down the road. That’s what happened the last time under Reagan, the Dems got what they wanted, a surplus to fritter away while at the same time crowing over how they saved senior’s paychecks. I for one will not support any pact with the Devil/Democrats. “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.”
