Plenty of people live on just Social Security. They live damn poorly, but they live. I don't mind paying SS taxes. I will probably get a lot of it back, and I will help those less fortunate then myself. The government is simply the best way for all these Republican Christians to help the sick and the old, like Christ told them to. Also, read the links - SS is projected to be solvent until 2042. All these exagerrations about it "going broke" - its just the newest "WMD" story the Republicans are trying to shove down our throats.