Do these folk realize as as our own population ages, supporting the elderly will fall on the shoulders of fewer and fewer of us?
Never mind. I forgot who I was talking about.

Gee, where was the "shit fit" when twenty other countries signed similar agreements with the United States? I guess the Trent Lott Republicans are also still the Pete Wilson Republicans.

I thought the dirty little secret of social security was that it didn't need saving, as long
as the Bush administration di not dip in its funds?

I thought the dirty little secret was that it deliberately screws African Americans - that it is, in fact, a cleverly concealed mechanism for redistributing wealth from young African Americans to elderly white women.

I don't understand why there isn't more outrage over this...

Why isn't there outrage on social security screwing black people? Because it's not true. Yes, because african americans have lower lifespans, they don't always collect as many benefits as similarly-situated whites, but they also benefit tremendously from survivor benefits, disability benefits (SSI), and from the fact that it guarantees a pension at all-- of key importance since blacks are far less likely to have retirement income than whites.

See here for more. A sample:

Black children were nearly a quarter of the Social Security survivor beneficiaries paid because a parent was dead. One in five widows or widowers who received benefits while caring for a child was African American. Among disabled beneficiaries, nearly 20% were black.

Further, most retired African Americans collect for many years. In 1992, black women who lived to normal retirement age, now 65, could expect to live an average of 17.4 years more compared to 19.3 years for white women. Similarly, black men who reached normal retirement age could expect to live on average 13.5 years more compared to 15.5 years for white men. (The discrepancy in life expectancy by race has been dropping over time and in all likelihood will continue to do so.)

Social Security's progressive formula, which pays relatively more to those with low incomes than to those with high incomes, is another big plus for blacks, who on average have lower incomes than whites. Privatization of Social Security would change that to their disadvantage. I recently wrote a column on the general lies of social security privation here.

I think he meant here.