re: #38 marjoriemoon

Wow. If I retire at 62, I get about $1500. If at 65, about $2000 and at 70 about $2500. How much more should they increase the age? Until I’m dead? Well that would work, I guess, because I’m not around to use it.

The elderly rely on Medicare and SS. I don’t care if you’re benefit is $500 a month. That means life or death to some people.

You can’t tell me there’s no way to cut the budget other than on the backs of the poor and elderly. I don’t accept that.

67’s a good compromise. When SS and Medicare were introduced, very few people lived into their 80s and 90s. Due to advances in medical science and nutrition and workplace safety improvements, many more are living longer. Medicare, in particular, is costing too much as currently constructed.

And means testing means that people wouldn’t be eligible to get their government checks if they are wealthy. That’s got nothing about “on the backs of the poor and elderly” to it.