Cutting Social Security, should it be cut or not? Options

[Superase]

Ok so Social Security. An amount of money taken out of your paychecks so that when you get old you have some money.

Ok so here's the debate:

Should Social Security be cut?

Ok so for my opinion Social Security was never meant to be permenant so its about time to get rid of it. Ok and for those people that have already be working for a while and have had money taken out the government should just right them a check now not when they are old. Because you will not live long enough to see all the money that was taken from you.

[kryogenix]

That's the unfortunate thing; the government has made us dependent on it. Talking about cutting it is not a politically expedient thing to do since everyone panics when they think all the old people are gonna get cut off.

But the cold hard fact is that social security is not a sustainable program, and given our current situation, we really can't afford to keep something that's going to be losing us money every year. With or without social security, there won't be enough money to pay for everything that the old and disabled need. The only difference is, with social security, everyone is feeling the pain.

If only there were some way of slowly phasing it out.