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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 12:08 AM Nov 2015

Why Stop The Rise In Retirement Age at 70. Go To 80 Or 85+. Include Medicare At Those Levels.

The GOP would be delirious because it would save Social Security and Medicare because very few people would make it that far. The GOP knows that many fewer people could draw at 70 because so many would be dead or broke before then. 80 or higher would be even better. There would still be a program and it would have huge surpluses.

The GOP practices what I call "store front" programs. What they want is like walking on a Hollywood set. You walk down the street of the town. As soon as you walk through the front door of any building you are in a field. There is no there there.

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Why Stop The Rise In Retirement Age at 70. Go To 80 Or 85+. Include Medicare At Those Levels. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Nov 2015 OP
And then they can "borrow" the surplus again. Matariki Nov 2015 #1
Cheaper money supply as GOP motivation seems more true than not. HereSince1628 Nov 2015 #4
Question… CobaltBlue Nov 2015 #2
There's always money for war Art_from_Ark Nov 2015 #5
That's the GOP plan. Millions of desperate hungry seniors willing to work as cheap labor B Calm Nov 2015 #3

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. Cheaper money supply as GOP motivation seems more true than not.
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 08:54 AM
Nov 2015

A pile of money always needs to be put to work.

 

CobaltBlue

(1,122 posts)
2. Question…
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 08:46 AM
Nov 2015

Ever notice how none of the Washington, D.C. elites ever worry about the financial costs of getting the United States into wars?

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
3. That's the GOP plan. Millions of desperate hungry seniors willing to work as cheap labor
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 08:50 AM
Nov 2015

to keep from starving!

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