Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Social Security Date:   3/3/2016 8:20:07 PM

was working just fine until the governemnt took the money people paid in.   It's SSDI that is the problem.  The issue I have with the programs you cited is that they suddenly became defined as "entitlements".  Don't know about you, but they deducted money from my paycheck all the time I was working for Medicare.  But if the government decides to reappropriate the money, and the money is gone, then the program becomes an "entitlement", not a benefit that was paid for.