The only way to fix Social Security is to:

1. Remove all the additional handouts that Congress has added to the system. It was never meant to be Social Welfare; rather it's supposed to be an income supplement to those who actually PAY INTO IT! If you didn't put into it, you don't get to take out of it. If you die, the money should go to your beneficiaries. Period.

2. Put our money back PLUS INTEREST! Congress started robbing our Social Security savings accounts decades ago for their pet projects. If they were in the civillian sector and did that to a pension fund, they'd all be in jail right now. So, who gave them the right to rob our accounts? They need to put the money back plus the interest we would have made. Then there's be a surplus as their once was. They put the system into jeopardy; not us. So don't try to lessen our benefits and raise our taxes. Put our money back! To much to put back? Well then, why don't we just cut your salaries and retirement benefits over the next 100 years and use that money to prop up Social Security. Congress: YOU broke it so YOU get to pay for it. Not us!

3. Once the money is put back and all the loopholes have been closed, the final step is the best way to insure it's the greatest system of all. We set it up so that Congress will no longer receive their lucrative retirement. Instead, they will have to depend on Social Security the same way that hundreds of thousands of their employers have to do.
They seem to forget that; they work for us! Would you give your employees a better benefit plan than your own? Well guess what...we already did.