Reply #214: False choice. We don't need to do either. [View All]

and btw, whether or not people can "afford" to live on SS benefits alone, take a look at how many do. (Again, google is your friend) It's more than "a few." I would also like to see you address the issues of manual work at 55+ (many manual workers, btw, already suffer various ills arising from the work they do when they're in their forties). However, you studiously avoid the issue while advocating for raising the retirement age.

We should be lowering both the retirement age and increasing benefits, as well as - in the absence of sane national health care - lowering the age for Medicare.

You are mired in the Beltway rhetoric and - for what reason I cannot even begin to guess - refusing to look at the options for raising revenue.

Which is all I have to say on the subject.