i would still have to pay Social Security taxes, but i don't mind that at all; since it is not an entitlement program of any kind. and this little experiment in democracy known as the United States has already seen the terrible result of ignoring the elderly and unable to work. Social Security is easily the most successful program in our history - and it took a class-traitor who saw his own class for what it was to ram it down our throats.
Huh? Social Security is one of the two biggest entitlement programs, the other being Medicare.
I wouldn't classify those programs as "entitlement programs" to be honest. Both of them we pay into via taxes our entire lives, every paycheck. I don't think it's greedy to want to get those funds back out in our time of need.
Welfare, sure. Medicaid, sure. But SS and Medicare are on a slightly different tier.
EDIT: I'm not arguing that they don't need reform. I'm simply arguing that they aren't "entitlement programs" that's all.