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 I know it’s going to become insolvent and it will need to be cut. I’m planning my retirement assuming I only get 50% of what I’m entitled to. But there’s a big leap from that to “we should abolish all welfare programs” 
 We all know what's going to happen. They will be paid out in dollars, but the dollars will be worthless. And somehow people will say this is better than free markets because sometimes there are recessions and they're painful, and we must overcome these "animal spirits". Socialism works, until it doesn't. What do they teach in Keynesian/Communism schools?

"In the long run, we're all dead" - so just kick the can down the road and don't worry about it