Reply #7: Yes Social Security has to prove its solvency into infinity

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It is subject to a “review” by a bunch of people who aren’t dependent on it, and who are really more interested in how to curtail the most successful government program ever. Generations of older Americans have been kept out of poverty thanks to Social Security, so clearly it must continually justify its existence.

Meanwhile, the defense budget balloons even in peace-time, with very little scrutiny whatsoever. How long can we continue to spend more than a billion dollars a day on a standing military force, for weapons we don’t need, and to maintain armaments and bases all over the world? Curiously, that drain on the Treasury is never looked at seriously, and surely wouldn’t be subject to review by a commission of peaceniks, hippies and other folks hostile to a bloated defense and its overbilling contractors. We need to be sensible! Xe needs fat, cost-plus no-bid contracts; citizens don't need money to live month to month.