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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abused.crr" data-source="post: 2668777" data-attributes="member: 50047">Broke is 0, we are now 20 trillion past broke.  Social security is only 1/3 of the problem.  About 75% of our country's budget is social security, defense, and the different health care programs.  Our answer for everything the last 40 years was to throw money to it.  We just can't afford it.   Actually we never could afford it.  How can anybody justify spending a trillion+ dollars a year more than our revenue.  As far as collecting social security...   we fell for a lie.   The new deal was a raw deal.   If a foreign country threatened our shores 99 out of 100 people would be will to fight to the death to protect their children but if a fiscal crises threatened our country (like it is now) well then friend... it our children can pay the piper.</blockquote>