Japan loves Obama

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:
The degree of the improvement obviously, along with decades of failure to adjust for reality.

So ... it's a broken concept because the gov't isn't sticking to the plan? Is a diet a broken concept just because your will breaks and you buy a gallon of ice cream?

(1) Again, poor execution, which can be (painfully) fixed.
(2) OK.
(3) I would like to know what assumptions that graph is using.
(4) So apparently a lot of Social Security is turning out to be just another tax ...

Anyway, I'm not trying to dispute that Soc. Sec. isn't working the way we're doing it, but you were saying it couldn't work -- that it is necessarily unstable.

I would argue that's the same thing. 

Sure if they changed... just about everything about the program it could work.  As it is however it was just a poor idea.  I mean, just about anythign when it comes to politcs can work if you alter it enough.

I disagree. 

When you referred to it as a pyramid scheme I thought you were talking about the very idea of it, not the deficits the plan happens to be running.  I don't think they would have to change "just about everything", although you may know more about this than I do, but I still don't see how that could be right unless you're attacking the foundational concept.