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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: TimF who wrote (10004)8/3/2011 1:42:28 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
under actual supreme court precedent, no one has any legal right to Social Security benefits.

Your statement is much broader than what the SC ruled. It ruled that the eligibility requirements of the SS law could be changed in a way that resulted in people being excluded or getting smaller benefits, IOW, that it could, for example, raise the retirement age or means test SS, or exclude people who murdered their employers.

I addressed changing entitlement programs up-thread. The government could avoid default by changing or eliminating entitlement programs to a point where it had enough money to cover them. But when the person is qualified under extant law, the government has to pay. If the government runs out of money and deals with that by changing the law to eliminate or reduce benefits to an affordable level, it is in default only during the period between the time the money runs out and the law is changed. (After that it would be in political hell but not default. <g>)
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