re: #565 Obdicut

referring to your #557:

Nah. A ponzi scheme needs to keep getting bigger forever. SS just needs to survive the boomers. A ponzi is a pyramid— this is a big fat python with a huge bolus of pig in it.

This misses the point entirely. Social Security was designed to pretty much force people to set aside money for their old age. This doesn’t work if you spend it all instead. Getting through the baby boom doesn’t fix anything, the problem is still, you’re spending all the money you’re supposed to be setting aside.