Reply #7: That's correct, but most Democrats have dug in their heels and...

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want no change to SS. There is no way to pay SS benefits at the current rate beginning in about 6 yrs. but most people in our party have convinced our elected officials that we want to wait until it crashes to fix it. We can do that, but I guarantee that the fix after the crash will be way worse than what the current administration is proposing (and they have not convinced me that the problem in SS is fixable if every single "fix" suggested by everyone is employed, i.e. cut benefits, raise retirement age, borrow more money to let the workers opt out a small portion of their taxes for a separate a/c, etc.)