Besides raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits to 70 for people now 50 or younger, Mr. Boehner suggested curbing benefit growth by tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than growth in wages, and providing benefits only to those who need them.
“If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we’re broke?” he said. “We just need to be honest with people.”
via Both parties mull raising retirement age – Washington Times.
First the “we are broke” argument doesn’t cut it. We are broke because they stole money from Social Security to buy votes by spending it on other things unrelated to SS. In any corporation if you did this you would be put in jail, yet our government has been doing it for years and calling it legal! BS!
The second argument of not paying people just because they planned better than other people is just as bogus! Why should anyone be required to pay an insurance premium only to be told upon maturity that they planned too well outside the plan so they aren’t eligible? It’s ridiculous!
How do these people still have jobs? Oh wait, they are using this money to buy votes, I almost forgot.
We can’t afford to continue to let this go on. We have to take back Washington. We need more Jim DeMint style senators and representatives who aren’t willing to trade their morals for money or political victories. We can’t continue to send the likes of Hoyer, Boehner, and the rest back up there to spend without regard for our future and the future of our kids. If you want to do something about it then do it. Vote them out!