I've been saying this for awhile now... Check out "I.O.U.S.A"! David Walker's the former Comptroller General of the U.S, & he said during interviews for this movie back in 2008, that social security has been masking how bad the deficit is for years... And now that SS has reached critical mass & can no longer be "borrowed" against to conceal the true deficit... We'd finally get to see just how bad things truly are this coming decade. The numbers/charts/graphs he presented were staggering I think what he was prophesying is beginning to come true