I’m 69 And will turn 70 in December. Speaking as an official oldster /Medicare/SS recipient who would have preferred to keep all the money that was extorted from him to support those two programs and invest it himself, I say Ryan is the best hope for all of us who are SS/MC beneficiaries to protect our benefits. Equally vital, some type of individual investment account/privatization must be adopted for both programs to make their beneficiaries secure in the future. Ryan definitely understands this and Romney has shown, by picking Ryan, that he probably understands this.
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