Does Social Security Demonstrate ‘Compassion’?

I’m always fascinated by people, including libertarians, who convince themselves that they are being good, caring, and compassionate by advocating the continuation of Social Security. Claiming that it would be heartless to suddenly terminate this program, they say that the moral thing to do is continue the program for at least one generation. Of course, we all know what would happen at the end of that period — people would clamor for another 25-year extension by saying that to suddenly end the p...