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[Radical Activist]

It sounds pretty benign compared to the horror stories people have been peddling.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-1203-durbin-story%2C0%2C5604188.story

It increases the minimum benefit for the lowest income Social Security recipients and adds a much needed increase in benefits for those above the age of 85. It raises the retirement age one year to 68, 40 years from now, meaning no one above the age of 28 today would be affected and the retirement age would be 69, 65 years from now. To protect those in manual labor jobs who cannot wait to retire, we create special benefit package that will still allow for early retirement.