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To: xzins

not sure where you read in the article or on my post or any other post about ending it.

but the retirement age has to be raised.

It was a bad concept but its here and many have paid into it their whole working lives.

People living into their nineties regularly wasn’t considered back then either


18 posted on 05/26/2016 9:59:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

I don’t want 70 year old truck drivers. The fact is most manual labor jobs are not possible for a 65 year old and there are only so many foreman slots available. A higher retirement age sounds fine for a person behind a desk. As Trump says, we have to take care of our people.


60 posted on 05/26/2016 10:54:38 AM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: dp0622
the retirement age has to be raised

No, it doesn't (You want 75-year-olds navigating 18-wheelers down the same highway where you drive?), and it's a distraction from the real problem.

It all boils down to two trend lines:

This ends in one of two ways: a socialist upheaval that would make Bernie Sanders look like Milton Friedman, or some serious reform to insure that people who create wealth don't have it siphoned out of their pockets by people whose only talent is shell-gaming.

72 posted on 05/26/2016 11:25:34 AM PDT by Cyberman
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To: dp0622

No, actually eliminate the SSI crap. Waaaay too many freeloaders on SSI!


96 posted on 05/26/2016 3:24:06 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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