One out of five Americans believe social security is unconstitutional!?

These are probably the same group of idiots who believe the income tax is unconstitutional. These people are the low-life ignorants who lay on the couch all day watching soap operas or football games while stuffing their faces full of Doritos and Budweiser.

I'm afraid the actual figure may be closer to 30% I am sad to say. I became disabled at the age of 55 with severe heart disease. Thank GOD I had been paying into SS since 1972 when I entered the working world. Thank GOD I made a decent living and am able to live on my SSDI.

I do believe that Tea Partiers and religious evangelicals play a role in this, in that they have lived such pampered lives that their innate selfishness prevents them from seeing that once you're older you cannot get an adequate salaried job.

What would Christ say to those individuals who express such umbrage that a small portion of their annual income go to the betterment of the community. I can understand not wanting to subsidize parasites and ne'er-do-wells who have never made an effort to make an honest living, but in a country with a population as large as ours, not everyone can make $70 000+ a year.

Evangelicals never understand that enforced, legislated morality leads to organized crime and social rebellion.

The message of Christ has been replaced by the Religious Right's interpretation mean, stingy outlook on helping one another, which echoes the Yuppie era to the point of nausea and disorientation.

So, you see, I don't think otherwise, but I took the liberty of sharing my opinions, because I'm free to do so. I was free to do so before the Tea Party and the evangelicals made the scene, as were my parents, and their parents, etc.

It's something other than constitutional to lose 20-30% of each dollar I contribute to SS. Read ur next benefits statement, first page: "It's projected that every dollar u contribute to SS will only return .70 in benefits" (something similar to that). Why ANYone would voluntarily choose to do this is baffling, but we have to by law. Why any governmental organization would be able to continue to be operated in this manner is even more baffling.

It's simple: people had larger families back in the day; more people meant more money contributed to SS. Today, families are smaller, therefore not as much in terms of total contributions. SS cannot sustain paying what's going out compared to what's coming in... it's almost an inverse relationship. "Hi, we're SS. In 2008 we paid out (76 billion) in benefits & claims while taking in (74 billion). For 2009, it was (89 billion) out with only (64 billion) coming in. We think nothing should change in terms of the ratio of what goes out versus what comes in.". The parenthetical amounts were just an example... it's WAY more than those figures listed, I'm sure. Anyone in agreement with this line of thinking is an ignoramus - and should be deported.

Tea party or religious affiliation has nothing to do with it. It's about common sense, something of which both groups seem to have in abundance (well, not do much the religious people).

Do YOU think it's wise or constitutional to continue to operate SS in this manner?