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Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:

It's already 66 for me--that's for certain; I've checked the SS website and done all their calculators.

johnslat · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject:

Heck, it was 66 for me (if I wanted to be able to work without possibly reducing my benefit) and I was born in 1943 Shocked

Regards,
John

Middle East Beast · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree

The gradual increase in retirement age for full benefits was changed in 1983.

You can check how it affects you here:

http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/IncRetAge.html

And yeah, VS, the GOP (Grand Obstructionist Party) wants to tamper with entitlements again while protecting those poor rich folks from paying more taxes. And, while protecting the Bush tax cuts, they now want the tax holiday (a reduction in SS tax) for middle class workers to expire.

I know I've lost sleep worrying about those poor rich folks.

MEB Cool

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

They upped the age for SS years ago, but NOW they want to up the age to get onto Medicare, which will actually up the costs for the system. But the whole point with them is to kill Medicare completely... and then kill Social Security. Let those useless old people die... who needs them... let them starve to death like the good old days. After all, they don't work anymore and feed the pockets of the rich owners. It was all so much better when they could have serfs and slaves... can't bring them back too soon for the GOP.

VS

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject:

The funny thing is, apparently decent billionaires like Warren Buffet are exhorting congress to charge the rich people more taxes. He says it's totally false that for those who make money with money (rather than labor), higher taxes result in less investment and fewer jobs. He says there's no difference. The rich still get richer, but the gov't gets more money--which it can redistribute to those in need if it wishes. It's the right-wing and frankly stupid people, who are represented in the GOP, who think they know more than Warren Buffet about voodoo economics and who basically tell patients who are sick and poor to get lost and die. As long as the GOP people don't have to worry about their own loved ones.

Same with the environment: Ronald Reagan once said "If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all." Well he didn't have to deal with logging on his ranch, did he. (But Reagan was a visionary angel compared to the Tea Party neanderthals. At least he also once said "There is no room in America for the haters.")

Middle East Beast · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree