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Message: <blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 2052851" data-attributes="member: 24583">It seems the system was originally set up that the younger people who came on board working would put enough into the system to pay the SS for us older people to retire.The problem is that there are so few younger people in the workplace now, there is very little money being put into the system.  It is much easier to party all night and not get up in the morning and go to work.  You still get paid by the Government, which does not hold out of welfare or unemployment checks to put into my SS fund.  I had a job at 16, stopped work when I was 62.  I paid enough money into my account to more than pay for my SS until I am 100.  How many young people out here are over 25 and never really had a real job where they had to support themselves 100% with what they brought home to feed their family?  We did not have mom and dad to fall back on, and certainly did not have the Government to fall back on.  If you got laid off, you got 6 wks unemployment, better start looking for another job early tomorrow morning, and if you got laid off because of doing something stupid, make damn sure you do not do that again.I partially blame some irresponsible young people and parents, but mostly blame our Government who make it easier to stay home and have babies than get a real job.  That along with doing everything they can to close businesses with regulations, paperwork, red tape, now mandatory health care and taxes, it is no wonder we are in the shape we are in.  We have some of the cleanest air in the world and still paying fines for everything.  It was a major battle to not have a fine for letting our cows fart and polluting the air.  Sadly this country is getting everything it deserves for letting it get this way.</blockquote>

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