It is not an entitlement. That gets me all the time.
It is government administered retirement and disability plan. You pay into it. Your employer pays into it. You get money back when you retire.
It is an actuarial game. So many people, so many years, some will make it, some will not, some will need disability insurance.
Hopefully the actuarial game was correct. It is hard to predict the future from the past.
There should have been an automated mechanism to update the statistics for changes in demographics needed to keep the plan fully solvent.
It should have been kept fully separate from the budget.
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