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Paul Hodes Firm on Social Security Retirement Age

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 19:40:04 PM EDT

I don't know how I missed this video from two months ago:

A cautious candidate would have stopped short with the promise never to privatize Social Security.

But Paul goes further to underline the importance of not raising the retirement age.

The alternative is any one of the four Judd Gregg 2.0 contenders who would be more than happy to continue our senior senator's work on the Catfood Commission.

I dedicate this post especially to all the Gen X-ers like myself who have been putting our earnings into the Social Security system for 20 years plus but who stand a great chance of not seeing the return on our investment at the age we expected. Get out there and GOTV!

Dean Barker :: Paul Hodes Firm on Social Security Retirement Age

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Paul Hodes Firm on Social Security Retirement Age | 5 comments

They want to steal your money (4.00 / 2)

Republicans want to steal the money you and your peers put into social security while giving tax breaks to wealthy and oil companies.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 19:26:33 PM CDT

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It's not just the Republicans (4.00 / 2)

that we have to fear.

TPM

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

by: susanthe @ Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 21:10:00 PM CDT

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Just another issue (0.00 / 0)

where the facts say one thing and the people in the pocket of the corporate interests say the opposite.
Facts are so inconvenient.

by: Lucy Edwards @ Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 04:56:03 AM CDT

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Thank you (0.00 / 0)

Paul.

by: Lucy Edwards @ Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 04:56:33 AM CDT

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Ezra Klein on Raising the Retirement Age (4.00 / 1)

Two good posts from Ezra Klein:

Should we raise the Social Security age to 70?

One of the ironies of America is that we've become really, really rich, but that's also allowed us to disregard an enormous amount of inefficiency and waste in our midst. Letting people retire at 65 rather than 70 costs money, but it at least serves a distinct purpose. Spending twice as much as other countries for health care without getting better results doesn't, and bearing half the world's defense spending on our shoulders is a questionable priority, as well. I'd be a lot more open to raising the Social Security age if there wasn't so much obvious fat to cut first.