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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 03:49 PM Original message |
How will they "cut" Social Security?? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. It started with means testing some time ago |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Up the age you can get SS to 70. No more early withdraws. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Step 2.. getting employers to keep people on the job until age 70 |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I agree. I actually think the retirement age should be sixty and no more stealing from SS |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 06:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. How many elderly will be moving in with their adult children. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Some will be taking their elderly CHILDREN with them when they get bounced |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Except that they do look at what was borrowed because all of that is tracked. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. Raise the early retirement age. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. People age at different rates. Many minority people tend to age faster. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 07:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Don't you think early retirement should stay just X number of years |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Pensions work on years of service..not age.. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 06:57 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. From my experience the people who "take" early retirement are usually spouses who didn't really work |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I am not an "outside worker", having quit in 1996 after having worked since I was 11 |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. According to the SS - if you are married and take |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. And the current fault is not due to 'baby boomers retiring.' |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
7. They are not cutting S.S. it has been stated unequivocally here on D.U. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. It'll be done like a circumcision |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. "...shortfall because of the Baby Boomers retiring...= fallacy |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. they want to abolish it, not cut it. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. In the holy name of deficit reduction |
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steelmania75 (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. "cut" code word for "privatize" |
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Fool Count (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
17. They will just fail to extend the debt limit one of those |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. We need to fight them tooth and nail |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
21. SS Trust Funds are 2.6 Trillion, raised from working people when they doubled contributions... |
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