[silverleaf]

raise the retirement age to 68 then 70, raise the income level subject to SS tax, decouple MEDICARE from SS (right now if you take one you must take them both), discontinue the penalty on elderly people working who lose SS for every dollar earned (let em keep working and paying into the fund even as they take out of it) and seriously root out prosecute and eliminate fraud waste and abuse and rebuild a true SS trust fund

and no SS payments except to US citizens who paid into the fund.... no checks to auntie living sweet back in the motherland

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

This 'raise the retirement age' solution is BS. What are we, some kind of super human that eventually will be able to work well into our 100's? NO. At some point regardless advances in medicine there is a maximum threshold where bones, nerves and muscles take their toll from working after 40 years so continually raising the retirement age is nonsense.

It would make more sense to LOWER the monthly SS payout amount than to RAISE the retirement age. Not everyone is SUPERHUMAN and able to work in their 70's, let alone mid '60's.