Investigate it yourself, vaxman. Please, please, please point to a real source that mentions 50 trillion. All I’ve found is “Yahoo! Answers” and YouTube.
I guarantee that whomever fabricated such a number, if they even attempted to back it up, relied on timeline projections to infinity. Guess what? If I bought a gumball a day for infinity, I would spend more than a zillion dollars.
When Bush-43 claimed that SS would fail, he used lifespans of 150 and retirement ages of 65: You know, the American dream of working for 35 years and then retiring for 85 more. Right! Even that was not enough, so they didn’t just look at projections over the next 2 or 3 decades, no! They ran the numbers until the year ∞.
Investigate it yourself, vaxman. Please, please, please point to a real source that mentions 50 trillion. All I’ve found is “Yahoo! Answers” and YouTube.
I guarantee that whomever fabricated such a number, if they even attempted to back it up, relied on timeline projections to infinity. Guess what? If I bought a gumball a day for infinity, I would spend more than a zillion dollars.
When Bush-43 claimed that SS would fail, he used lifespans of 150 and retirement ages of 65: You know, the American dream of working for 35 years and then retiring for 85 more. Right! Even that was not enough, so they didn’t just look at projections over the next 2 or 3 decades, no! They ran the numbers until the year ∞.