We Must Alter Soc Sec, Rangel Says (Cut Benefits, Raise Retirement Age)

New York Daily News ^ | November 29, 2006 | Celeste Katz

[RWR8189]

First Rangel alienates youths, now he alienates the elderly, this guy is the gift that keeps on giving.

[toddlintown]

Wow. Charlie's just a wellspring of ideas.

[Lazamataz]

Now America gets to see.

Everything the Democrats tried to scare Americans about, that the Republicans were gonna do..... every last one of them was what they planned to do, themselves.

[Dane]

It was the democrats who put the kibosh on social security reform after the 2004 election.

[OldFriend]

Hey Charlie, kiss my grits.

[Dead Corpse]

LOL... any "fix" for SS that doesn't include privatized accounts is worthless and even counter productive.

Rangel just proving he's as clueless about basic economics as he is on everything else.

[The Blitherer]

Wow, 0 for 2. Keep swinging Chuck.

[scan59]

But if President Bush offers suggestions, he want's to kill old people.

[FreedomNeocon]

Wow... ole chuck has really become a downer... lol.

[redgolum]

This is pretty odd.

Of course, it will still be all Bush's fault.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Maybe he is Rangeling for VP?

[goldstategop]

What Charlie Rangel won't do is the obvious: privatize Social Security so people can have REAL retirement accounts. He just admitted Social Securiuty is a Ponzi scam when he talked of cutting benefits and raising the retirement age. What good is Social Security if you'll never live long enough to collect it?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[hnj_00]

notice...that the only solution a lib/dem ever has is to raise taxes and cuts benefits......

and one can bet that benefits to certain groups will not be touched!!!!!

the group most effected will be the white middle class baby boomers that have funded the program all these years as the lib/dems have squandered the money......

where is algore and his lock box the lib/dems were so approvingly supporting???

[Dog Gone]

Baby Boomers will heartily endorse that plan!

The GOP regains the House in 2008.

[jcparks]

OK, Charlie...just as soon as you give up your plush congressional pension and health care package that WE pay.

BTW, get a haircut, you moron.

[skimask]

When Bush wanted to overhaul the Social Security System, the democrats screamed and yelled that nothing was wrong with it. Interesting how those same democrats are singing a different song now.

[airborne]

How about we raise the ceiling on taxable income?

I believe it's only the first $90,000 that SS effects.

[Uncle Miltie]

Democrats Starve Grandma!

[Sunsong]

I could be wrong - but wasn't it the democrats in 2005 telling us that Social Security was NOT in jeopardy - that there was plenty of money??

[babble-on]

Charlie Rangel is correct. Its either cut benefits, raise revenues or a combination of both, to make Social Security - not to mention Medicate and Medicaid, solvent.