[expatpat]

YOU may not have seen a cut if you were old enough. But everyone born after some time in 1938 is getting a cut because of the raising in retirement age that has already been implemented. Either in the monthly payment, if they retire before the new retirement age (like I did), or in total payments, if not, because of the missing payments between 65 and their new retirement age.

Any further raise in retirement age will cause further cuts. Your last sentence is erroneous, except for those who were lucky enough to beat the 1938 date.

[Cold Heat]

You talk about cuts like a democrat.

Deferral and cut are not the same.

[Grampa Dave]

BS.

Remarks like yours will scare the old people on SS who will not receive a cut if there are changes.

Come on. You are sounding like the gloomers and doomers on this. The proposals are not cuts for those of us on SS now, from my age of 65 to higher. That is the same language the liberals use when a conservative plans to reduce future spending. They scream cuts, and there have been no cuts, just reductions of proposed spending.

Use your excellent mind and economic sense to create a system where you and younger people can invest part of your social security payments into the markets. Whining about this is where the libs are. Younger conservatives will try to take these comments and in 2005 and beyond create a better program for them and their family.