Contracts with government, are they binding?

Editor,

Contracts signed in the private sector are good as gold or result in lawsuits. Contracts with government are apparently not worth the paper they’re printed on. Case in point, Social Security.

Social Security was a contract between the government and Social Security enrollees and enforced by the government for workers, individual or employed. Our federal government took the funds paid into the Trust Fund and spent it on all sort of activities other than retirement benefits and replaced it with IOUs at an unrealistic interest rate determined by them with no input from the workers. E...