US Social Security (Politics in Ecolang.) – Privatizers don’t like this! Best overview of US Social Security debate. Vote it up! The economy actually has a good outlook for Social Security and it stays stable as a percentage of GDP: see the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget outlook. The warning about the short-term Trust Fund deficit is a decoy to distract you from Social Security: It was the Bush income tax cuts that swallowed the payroll tax surpluses. (And then some!) Tell the politicians to put taxes back the way they were, fix the healthcare system instead, and leave Social Security alone. In another animation we will show that Social Security is the most-highly-evolved program to cover all the variables that it does so well. Social Security probably is “efficient” — in a COMPREHENSIVE economic sense that includes the minimization of the personal, social, and political transaction costs that must always be involved in balancing general welfare against distributional outcomes. It’s an amazingly good design for a universal safety net. The fact that Social Security nearly “pays for itself” with a dedicated tax (the payroll tax) is very important with regard to tying together the following things, automatically: people’s responsibility for a social safety-net; the life-long contribution that must require; and the final acceptance of one’s personal tradeoffs regarding one’s contingencies in the final outcome. So therefore, a discussion of “solvency” does …