The Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages need to be raised to 70 and indexed to 9 percent of the population going forward.
We are living DECADES longer than our ancestors who enacted those programs. We need to work longer. That's just plain common sense.
A smaller and smaller proportion of the working population is supporting a larger and larger proportion. It is blindingly obvious this cannot continue. Anyone with more than two brain cells can see this is unsustainable.
Same old song and dance.. Why not just say you're for cutting Medicare & Social Security and be done with it? "Conservatives" have always wanted Social Security privatized to enable greater bankster fun and profit.. exactly what it was designed to combat in the first place.. when they fought it tooth and nail. Meanwhile, Big Insurance has been busy, quietly taking over Medicare to destroy it (and thereby screwing up Social Security). Just ask Mac1958 who proudly grabs a nice chunk of the action every year. Your ilk already raised the age of eligibility once. Where are all these remaining, decrepit 65-70 year olds supposed to work? At an
Amazon warehouse? Delivering packages for
Amazon? Go back to school? Start a new career? Big business is reportedly still generating record profits! Economy's booming, baby! How about we all strike until they start giving their workers their due instead of just buying back their own stock? Never listed as an inflation cause:
“I hate stock buybacks,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), recently
said. “I think they are one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does.”
This idea has bipartisan support. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted in 2018, “When corporation uses profits for stock buy back it’s deciding that returning capital to shareholders is better for business than investing in their products or workers”
You're all just punch down, grabby prick, opportunists. Admit it.
A great example of self-contradictory, duplicitous BS if their ever was one..
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