"Social security's cash flow will be in the RED in 2018 and will have no money in 38 years"
Somehow I think the masses will do the short-sighted thing and demand that potential Mars money be wasted in trying to buttress social security:
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03230002aaa010ce.upi&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News
"[Social Security's] cash flow will be in the red in 2018 and the program's money will be exhausted in 38 years and "neither of those dates have changed since last year's report. Part of the growing problem is the 76 million baby boomers who will be retire and file for Social Security in the next couple of decades."