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  • No reasoning with the elderly on issue of Social Security

    05/25/2005 8:42:08 AM PDT · by qam1 · 257 replies · 3,235+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 5/24/05 | Ruben Navarrette
    The debate over whether to reform Social Security is full of idiosyncrasies. Here's a big one: No matter what fix we're talking about - partial privatization, raising the retirement age, means testing so millionaires forfeit benefits, tying benefits to inflation rather than wages, etc. - the most ferocious opposition comes from the demographic that won't be affected either way by any proposal being discussed at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue: Americans already 55 and over. If you can imagine that, you're already two steps ahead of the Bush administration. White House officials seem baffled that their biggest fight has turned...