ziggy29
Moderator Emeritus
Let's keep this focused on the issue and not the partisanism, please; I'd hate for Porky to make a quick entrance. This was a little too relevant and important to the retirement issue not to share.
Top Republican: Raise Social Security's retirement age to 70 - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
No doubt, too, that the "line" would be drawn such that I'd be among the oldest to have the age raised to 70.
And exactly where are all these extra jobs going to come from, to say nothing about the rampant age discrimination that already exists even below age 65?
Top Republican: Raise Social Security's retirement age to 70 - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
I've been saying all along that I expect most public benefits to be means-tested by the time I'm a senior, so this adds credence to my strategy to configure a cheapskate lifestyle which needs a fairly low income to maintain.A Republican-held Congress might look to raise the retirement age to 70, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested Monday.
Boehner, the top Republican lawmaker in the House, said raising the retirement age by five years, indexing benefits to the rate of inflation and means-testing benefits would make the massive entitlement program more solvent.
No doubt, too, that the "line" would be drawn such that I'd be among the oldest to have the age raised to 70.
And exactly where are all these extra jobs going to come from, to say nothing about the rampant age discrimination that already exists even below age 65?