One of the attention-getting gimmicks that we use here at S4 is the FREE SNICKERS!! game.  We advertise for the game using merely a poster bearing the same words and a couple KING size Snicker's bars taped to the sign.  The point of the game (as you can see by looking through our photo and video galleries) is to demonstrate the inequalities that Social Security represents for our generation.  People playing the game obviously think they will receive a huge King size Snicker's bar upon completion, but in actuality, they are given a much smaller reward: a baby size Snickers.  This is modeling what the current system will do to OUR generation if nothing is done; we will get a mere SLIVER of what we've actually PAID INTO the system! 

So we try to make this point as easy to understand as possible and the game works well!  In fact, a couple weeks ago, when we were playing the FREE SNICKERS!! game, a couple people got straight up MAD at us.  It was a father/son duo and the father, upon seeing that his son was getting screwed out of his rightful prize, got mad at us and yelled at us saying the game was a complete waste of time, etc.  I had to turn and THANK him, because I think his attitude of displeasure and disatisfaction with what happens with Social Security is a fitting depiction of what everyone in our generation will eventually feel like when it come time to start collecting our benefits.  All of us will feel like that father and son and be straight up MAD that our government has basically screwed us out of thousands of dollars. 

Luckily, we KNOW about the impending crisis, so that means...we have a chance to fix it!  We can avoid these feelings of dissatisfaction by getting Congress to address the issue NOW, instead of taking the easy way out and avoiding it.  The father's and son's anger toward us was pretty impressive -- I can only imagine the sort of uproar when its an entire GENERATION that's peeved!!  Congress, please help us avoid this now!!