Rangel Offers Solution to Social Security Funding Problem
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said the solution to shoring up the solvency of the Social Security System may lie in a new approach to the draft. Rep. Rangel’s proposal to revive the military draft has been given little chance for passage in the upcoming congress.
“The youth of America may just be too selfish to submit to the call to serve,” Rangel conceded. “But I was thinking, if we drafted the oldsters we might kill two birds with one stone.”
Under Rangel’s new plan, those receiving Social Security benefits would be required to serve two years in the military. “War today is highly mechanized and automated,” Rangel pointed out. “A senior citizen is perfectly capable of pushing a button to launch a missile or drop a bomb. The hand-to-hand combat could still be left to the younger volunteers.”
The government is expected to save money in two ways. First, the drafted seniors will displace some of the current military personnel. “Instead of having to pay salaries to soldiers and Social Security benefits to retirees, we’d make one payment to the senior soldiers,” Rangel observed.
The second source of savings is the option of seniors to opt out of the draft by declining to receive Social Security benefits. “The government wouldn’t have to make any payments to those unwilling to serve,” Rangel said. “A lot of the elderly are well-off financially. They own homes free-and-clear. They have private sector pensions. Many own stocks and bonds or businesses. They won’t need Social Security in their old age.”
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"Rangel Offers Solution to Social Security Funding Problem"
and your post has what to do with military recruiting? LOL
Good grief. Is this guy for real? Most seniors I know are sickly. They'd be great on the field. What a tool. I hope he'll be the first one to sign up.....I'm waiting....waiting....waiting....