Let us opt out today! I would gladly give up all the SS benefits I've accrued in my life if I could simply not have to pay into the ponzi scheme of SS going forward.
You forget one tiny little detail. This year's contribution that you will make is already spent. So is next years, and the year after that and after that and...and the money in social security? Brother, that is spent too. It's called the national debt. The deficit is just a single quill on the porcupine's back.
People don't get that America is far worse than broke. They are in debt greater than can ever be repaid and spending like a drunken sailor while the American people continue to hand over blank checks.
At least they saved the bankers. That was worrying me. I see now that it was the right thing to do. They saved us all!