June 14, 2005
How Does 69 Sound?
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Because Social Security is such a hot topic these day, not, Republicans offer up their latest idea to save the not-broken system.
Raise the retirement age to 69.
Though with proposals like this, I've always wondered if they hurt the 62-67 year old age cohort who would otherwise be looking forward to retiring. Would they be a blip in opposing the policy based simply out of their own self interest? Probably. But I doubt that this is going anywhere now that SS has been backburnered for a while.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at June 14, 2005 10:24 PM
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Well, I've believed for years that Republicans were coming up with new and exciting ways to screw the American people.
FWIW, the idea of raising the retirement age isn't the worst idea on the table; and it also gets to the root of whatever problems Social Security may face (unlike private accounts). It might be a "last resort" measure.
Also, if I hear any person support raising the retirement age who previously claimed that Social Security is "racist" because blacks don't live long enough to collect benefits (or whatever the argument was) -- well, any such person gets a big ol' raspberry from me.
HAhahaha, did people really advocate that? Remember, it also discriminates against gay people because we aren't supposed to make it past 40 ya know. But wouldn't that make Republicans big fans of SS then? Ooo it's like a catch-22...
Raising the retirement age to 69 would save the retirement program a lot of money because many people like me will not really be able to work that long, but it will cost the disability program when we are forced to retire early.
How can you actually argue that Social Security is a "not-broken system"?
I mean, that's just beyond absurd.
