Reply #24: Well..

[sendero]

... I see you are practicing abstract thinking.

I simply don't see a "promise to borrow in the future" as the same thing as a "deposit of dollars in the bank".

Sure, the dollar can become valueless. We can invent scenarios to justify almost any position. Some of them are possible, some are likely and some are simply absurd.

The simple fact is this - our SS system was poorly designed from the start. The Repugs would like to stick a fork in it. Those of us who have paid into it all their lives would like to get our money back. Its viability in the future depends on the government's ability to tax and the populace's ability to withstand taxation. Since taxes are anathema to Repukes, they are trying to find a silver bullet exit.

They won't, and we can't let them.