SS is WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION carried out at a later age. Any gov't program where they take your money then supposedly dole it out to you later in a different sum is by its definition wealth redistribution.
Then, respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about. Taking money and then giving it back to you later in a different sum isn't wealth redistribution, its a loan. In order for this to be wealth redistribution, the people recieving the money couldn't have paid into the system. They did.
I don't really care what any of you expect when you pay into SS but the bottom line is it is an unstable system in its current form. The fact is the current generation starting to collect is far larger as a percentage than the one expected to pay, far more so than the system was ever planned to handle. Then there is the fact that people are getting at least 10 years of payment beyond what was ever designed into the system.
And even if what you are saying is correct, that has nothing to do with the valid claim of the people who have paid into the system. SS needs to be fixed. However to place this burden on the people that played by the rules is about the most unfair thing I can think of.
They were forced into it, abided by the rules, and now you're going to sit here and tell them that they don't have a right to their own money. I don't think so.
Of course none of this matters when we are talking about entitlements. Everyone here will cry out against welfare and other broken systems but when it comes to systems paying THEM money then we need to look at things differently. It doesn't matter that the system is unfair to all the following generations as long as the current pigs get their slop.
Once again, you have this whole thing bassackwards. There is NO ENTITLEMENT with SS. Unless you want to change the definition of the word it simply doesn't apply.
Furthermore its not about PAYING them money its about RETURNING money. There is a big difference between the two that you clearly don't get.
As someone who has more than 30 years before they are eligible for SS I am in the same boat as you when the system tanks. I fully agree the system need to be fixed. However, because you and I may not see any of the money we pay in does NOT make those who are collecting money grubbers, pigs, or anything else.
They simply are people who were forced to accept a crappy plan enacted by crappy people. They stuck with it, kept up their end, and are DESERVING of the money they are collecting.