Here's what I'm wondering. When the jobs are provided, which I totally believe there will be many, more jobs, will all people, that are able (not disabled), and not retired after working their whole life, actually go back to work?? I think that many folks have gotten so used to being on Welfare and foodstamps that they have no desire to work, and using @Ken Anderson word, or"incentive", let alone ambition. Not blaming anyone, just saying. In other words, I believe many people in this country have been "enabled" not to work.
Bringing jobs back will help social security and the government more than most people imagine. For every job that leaves this country, the American citizen that should be doing that job is now getting at the very least unemployment benefits and probably food stamps or other welfare. So instead of paying taxes to help support the government he is doing the opposite and taking from the government. That same job is no longer paying social security a or medicare taxes that should keep them solvent. Bringing jobs back and keeping illegals from taking those jobs is very very important.
There must be a way to give those who come after us choices and not mandates for where they want to invest the retirement funds that are taken out of their paychecks. Especially if the Government does not stop taking the interest earned from Social Security funds and spending it however they please...and replacing those funds with "worthless" IOU's. I know many young people, some in my own Family are concerned that their retirement deductions are being squandered by our Government and they want this either stopped or they want to have other choices to invest in besides Social Security.
It doesn't help that both political parties use Social Security as a prop for their campaigns every four years, with the Democrats threatening that the Republicans will cut it and the Republicans promising that the Social Security fund is going broke. The reality is that, like everything else our government spends money on, they can simply print more of it. Unlike most government spending, the Social Security fund at least has an income stream, with people paying into it. If we can afford welfare, we can afford Social Security. If we can afford to buy bombs, we can afford Social Security. If we can afford to pay our congressmen, we can afford Social Security.
Very true, @Ken Anderson. In any case, I'm not worried about it in my lifetime. My kids are planning for their retirement and don't really plan on relying on SS...things can change in a heartbeat though but as of things now, that's how they think. My daughter and SIL want to retire by age 55 at the latest...think after they get the youngest through college.