You might be complaining the state doesn't pay for the elderly to retire easily ? Ok, let's do some basic calculations to sketch that out.
Right now there's a little over 12% elderly in the US (and really more like 10% once you take out the ones still working). That number is just about to rise rapidly to 15% by 2021 or so, then a little slower to ~25% by 2050. The under 18's will likely stay constant at ~25%. That means that the government, just for elderly care and schools (NOT including health care, the military, roads and harbors and other infrastructure ...) needs half your pay. 50%. Currently it needs ~25-30% for that. This is totally independent of the actual spending, it's amount of headcount that needs to go to elderly care.
So in order to simply provide current level care, and without considering health care for elderly, or increased longevity, your take home pay, just considering elderly taxes, needs to reduce from ~75% to under 50%. Or, how this will appear from the perspective of someone who works, your taxes need to rise by half. Every tax. For California, income tax needs to rise from 40% to 60% (and it's a progressive tax, and this means the income from that tax needs to rise, so it's not just higher rates for the rich. It's mostly higher rates for the poor, not because of corruption, but because that's where the money is), average. Sales tax from 10% to 15%. And so on. A little under half that tax raise will need to happen in the next president's term (or, God forbid, Trump's second). Just so we're clear, that's a few years away.
If, as many suggest here, care needs to be increased and more broadly available ... well that costs more, of course. That means a little under half the total economic activity in the US needs to be focused exclusively on taking care of others (again, not including health care, that needs to be added on top after that).
We all know that current workers are not prepared to pay this. So why are we wining that "government will not take my elders off of me" ? It cannot do so ...
And the truly scary part is ... compared to Europe, the US is not doing too bad. Europe is a disaster waiting to happen, and will fail sooner than the US. Compared to Japan, Europe looks fine. And compared to China, Japan barely has a problem.
It's weird to realize this, but longer term things are pretty obvious: the US will open up it's borders like never before (because in the US case, that might, just might, actually fix things). The EU will ... uh ... I'd say "die", but politicians never let something die : they go to war. Against whom ? It won't be very hard at all to start a war with China in a decade, potentially sooner. It's weird but WW3 between "the EU" (Germany) and China, in 10-15 years would make sense.