You deserve bad kids.

There's a gap in social security. A giant hole, which Gen X, and Gen Y, have grown up vaguely aware of. Children have learned in school that the money is running out. They're used to the idea that though they see social security deductions on their paychecks, they'll never actually see social security. They've come to terms, and accepted, because what else is there to do?

Well, we could be mad, and we still might be. We could be furious, ranting, screaming children. We could break things, we could riot. There's really no use in that, and we've been taught, well enough, to remain civil. Because our homes are nice. Unless they're not, in which case we politely decline to notice. Our families are of course intact. Unless they're not...

And beyond being well taught, well trained, well educated little drones, the number doesn't make sense. Its ridiculous. It makes me giggle.

What's the number?

$54,232,674,000,000 Fifty Four Trillion Dollars.
We owe that. Us. Americans. Right now. The nation will produce about 14 trillion worth of goods this year, but its ok. We're de-leveraging. Paying it off. The number's falling. That's really just the first of a series of punches, lined up for us by the jokes of our parents.

Here's another number:
$109,214,000,000,000 One Hundred Nine Trillion Dollars
A hundred million millions, and that is what social security cannot cover. Yet.

The joke, then, is the idea that social security will end. That the smaller generation of children will vote against their aging parents on social security reform. That we wont shoulder the three hundred fifty thousand per Millennial.