Look again at what they are saying in that article about the future projections of income vs. obligations. The state of the SocSec budget
now is almost irrelevant. The budget deficit now is mostly not related to SocSec. The problem is, what is going to happen when masses of new recipients place a larger and larger burden on a proportionally smaller and smaller support base?
http://ideas.repec.org/a/red/issued/...3p575-675.html