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To: CharacterCounts

By the way, Obama has not proposed means testing social security. You are making things up.


33 posted on 12/09/2010 8:15:32 AM PST by November 2010
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To: November 2010
I don't have to have an actual statement from Obama to know what his position is. He has provided myriad indicators regarding his socialist redistribute the wealth goals. An intelligent person can deduce a persons position based on past actions and statements.

Fixing Social Security in the short term isn't all that difficult. First, adjust the retirement age up slowly to reflect the actual anticipated life span of the person collecting benefits. At one time 62 was old age. For most people that is no longer the case and they collect benefits for a much longer period than they did even 25 years ago. Adjusting the retirement age upwards would remove the entitlement portion of old age benefits

Second, one of the primary problems with social security is that the number of people collecting disability payments (often without contributing much at all to the program) has exploded in the past 25 years. This needs a hard look as it has introduced a welfare aspect into a program which was originally intended to provide a base retirement income to those who paid into it.

Once these are done the current system would once again be solvent. Then we can take steps to privatize it for young people.

Finally, This government is just going to have to take the bullet and remove Social Security from the general budget and put it back into a trust fund status.

36 posted on 12/09/2010 8:51:47 AM PST by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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