[Maricopa]

Sadly we've screwed the pooch on SS. Too many have already been paying in for 30, 40, 50 years to yank it away now. But that doesn't mean we need to repeat the mistake. I would imagine though that at some point we are going to have to bite the bullet and phase it out. it will be costly but necessary.

As for for what mandatory program to take money away from citizens and then trickle it back to them decades later? I don't see where the gov't has that power, so I would suggest it not do it at all.

Health care reform should begin with tort reform and end with the removal of the federal gov't from the health care arena. The system will certainly not collapse without bureaucrats and politicians being involved in it. That fact that you believe that shows just how effective the politics of fear has become.