"Yep, we're real productive out there in the rat-race after 65. Not to mention that the corporate world figures that once you get 30 yrs in with the company and are over 55, they just push you out the door (unless you have achieved upper management). Not everybody gets treated like Dan Rather."
I would love to see statistics that back that up. In fact, most income earners make their biggest incomes after 50.
"Quite a few Pubs will be retiring from Congress themselves if they jump on raising the age."
Yeah, right. /sarcasm Who's gonna make them pay, already retired seniors? It's not like Congress has never raised the age before, and gosh, whoever did that was voted out of office immediately. NOT.
I would prefer we cash out the program entirely. It's theft. But the obvious way to solve the problem of perception that in cutting Social Security you're starving retirees is to cut the number of retirees that do rely on it. Hell, I wish they'd raise the age to 100. Then people who can never rely on it will be pissed the tax is so high and do something about it.