A lot of "poor" older people have paid off houses and many other tangible assets but little income and call themselves "poor".
How dare they have a house that is paid off.
What? Did I say that? You try living off of $1600 a month, even if your house is paid for, you dolt!
Most of the people who have thought seriously about this issue, ie Paul Ryan and Rick Perry want to protect benefits for people already on it or within 8 to 10 years of retirement.
That’s only fair.
Cutting benefits would hurt older people. There is not a means test for social security, nor should there be, but for a lot of people it’s their main income.
There were no cost of living increases for 3 years until this year while everything such as gas and groceries went way up.
This is a very ill-thought out stance by Rick Santorum, but if that’s what he believes, I’m glad he told us before we voted for him.
Most of the people who have thought seriously about this issue, ie Paul Ryan and Rick Perry want to protect benefits for people already on it or within 8 to 10 years of retirement.
That’s only fair.
Cutting benefits would hurt older people. There is not a means test for social security, nor should there be, but for a lot of people it’s their main income.
There were no cost of living increases for 3 years until this year while everything such as gas and groceries went way up.
This is a very ill-thought out stance by Rick Santorum, but if that’s what he believes, I’m glad he told us before we voted for him.