Reply #19: I find it amusing because its the government that is running it into....

[Historic NY]

ground. Remember Reagan he tapped the SS surplus and made it part of the budget. Hey its a wonderful source to tap for Reaganomics. Give the politicians a source of revenue that is just sitting around and well eventually they will steal from it. Social Security regularly takes in more money in a year than it needs to funds itself. Again we have another source of temptation, lets use that money for say helping offset the Defense budget. For many years our government has been borrowing against "OUR MONEY", yup our money and leaving us a receipt or and IOU that they never intended to repay.

Its time to fix Social Security I agree and the best fix is to prevent our greedy politicians access to it. They want to privatize it okay, lets just take every bit of the money and let a private shareholder company manage it. Remove the ability of government to tap the money and one will see the whole problem disappear. We must make them accountable to repaying every thin dime that was taken and not replaced.