Can you survive 20 years as the mole in a Whack A Mole game?

I'd love to have the SS dollars I put in at retirement but then others who didn't do so well would become wards of the govt on welfare and I'd end up paying for that anyway. I don't know where we lost the "take care of the elderly" mentality. It's not the way I was raised. Mostly I see from the RWWJ's an attitude that if you didn't survive the life long assault on your finances from their handlers then you should just die when you become unproductive to the machine.