Allan Sloan: Don’t wait to make big Social Security fixes

People have gotten a lot more interested than usual about Social Security's rickety finances lately, thanks to the Social Security trustees' recent report saying that the system's trust fund will shrink this year for the first time since the 1980s.This problem has been building since 2010, when Social Security began to spend more cash than it took in from workers, employers and beneficiaries like me who pay income tax on some of their retirement benefits. The overall public reaction to Social Se