[yellowdoghunter]

NO to raising the retirement age! If we don't stop that option now, we will never be able to retire.

It is easy for a Congressperson to work until they are 80 since they have tax-paid staffers to do everything for them. How about no pay raises for Congress until SS is secure?

[chris1]

Social Security is not meant to be a retirement plan.

[crushkerry]

Yeah, but if we don't raise the retirement age the system will go bankrupt. People are living so long that, on aveage, they are more than getting back from SS than they put in, even if you add interest to what they put in.

When SS was formed the retirement age was 2 years OVER the life expectancy. Now, it's about 12 years UNDER the life expectancy. I'm not saying we should raise it to 80 or anythng, but to complain about a 1 year increase is ridiculous.

The last time the retirement age was raised was in 1983. You don't think it's about time, 22 years later, to do it again, given how much longer people are living?

[Hardastarboard]

It is easy for a Congressperson to work until they are 80 since they have tax-paid staffers to do everything for them.

And nobody can tell when you're too senile to work. You don't sound any crazier when senile than when you weren't (say, for instance, Ted Kennedy).