Comments on: Baby Boomers Worry They Won’t Be Able To Retire

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:37:09 +0000

It’s not really a matter of worry.
It’s a matter of reasonable expectations.

It also reminds me of the time President Carter was pushing swine flu shots. A number of elderly people got sick and died as a result of the vaccinations.

Reporters asked him about the deaths and he responded that it only killed elderly and weak.

“So the elderly should avoid the shot?”
“Oh, no those are the ones who need it most.”

I thought to myself, “Well THAT would certainly save money on Social Security.”

David considering final solutions

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:22:02 +0000

@Karen

Whether you call him a “socialist” or something else is not an argument to dispute what he says about Social Security being solvent. As a matter of point, you are reaffirming what he says by calling him a Socialist. If Social Security wasn’t Solvent a socialist would be one of the first people to be screaming “reform”.

Btw, the way you are using the tern “socialist” to describe him, while making no substantive point about SS, you are saying it in the sense of of meaning Communist, which is not what Bernie Sanders is.
People can support social programs and be a Capitalist. You can own your own business, pay your taxes and put your kids through public school while using public roads to go to the public library or the Equestrian Center or a park etc,,.

The rightwing in it’s effort of spreading hate, fear and smear uses words like “Socialist” in a dishonest way to turn every conversation into being about a government take over. When they do that, your conversation is limited to that spectrum instead of talking about a specific social program like Social Security. Then rightwing Corporatist or fascist politics mixed with fundamentalist DOGMA twist it into a conversation of being about good vs evil.

Privatizing SS, means putting your Social Security Retirement in the hands of Wall Street and losing it forever. Corporatist/Republicans want to make Social Security obtainable to the private sector so they can take it, not to make it stronger or safer, because that dog won’t hunt.

By: huh

huh — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:44:58 +0000

Once Ryan takes away all the programs these people have paid into and raises retirement age they will never retire

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:41:39 +0000

Until the government learns to live within their means, this country will continue to struggle and dig itself a deeper hole. I for one am sick and tired of laws that are passed that exempt members of congress.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:43:30 +0000

Come folks, both SS, and Medicare can not be sustained unless they are reformed. More to the point, unless private industry is allowed to grow, the programs will clearly fail. Has anyone visited the “temples” of our federal government in DC lately. Has anyone noted that the DC area has good economic conditions. All paid for from our taxes. The federal government is too big, and too invasive and needs to be reformed. Just check out the medical programs for both the Dems and the Republicans on the hill compared to your own. Time to strike the political flags and get to work for the people. Will the candidate for whom you will cast a ballot work for his reelection, or for you?

By: Mnon

Mnon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:00:54 +0000

Social Security was never intended to sustain a population who live longer, due to medical advances this day and age. It is a pyramid scheme that is collapsing. How you can you take from everyone while they are able to work, put it into a pool of money, and pay it back out to everyone at retirement age, permanently disabled, etc. when there are more people on social security than working to pay into it? It is a failed plan slowly bleeding until it dies. I will never expect to live off social security when I reach 65, because it will not be there!

The way America and the economy is heading, we will end up selling off everything we own to pay back China. If we do not, most of us will be retirement age, owned by communist China. But hey… at least we’ll have good free healthcare!

By: huh

huh — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:49:55 +0000

Once the GOP keeps raising the retirement age, and taking away medical benefits you can kiss retirement goodbye.

By: dad

dad — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:37:40 +0000

Republicans want to raise the retirement age. Most of us will die before we are old enough to draw much if they get their way. It’s already 67.5 for me. Not too many people can work to that age especially in a physically demanding job. I suspect I won’t be be to either.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:34:00 +0000

With the declining quality of life and healthcare and the stress that comes with it, most will be deceased before they reach too old an age.

It is a good thing people like Romney do no have to worry about such matters, it allows them to focus on important things like exporting jobs, raising taxes on the poor and running the nation.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:11:32 +0000

@Henry do you realize Bernie Sanders is a socialist. Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist,[1][2] and has praised European social democracy (though he has also criticized its contemporary “Third Way” departure). He is the first person elected to the U.S. Senate to identify as a socialist.[3] Sanders caucuses with the Democratic Party and is counted as a Democrat for the purposes of committee assignments, but because he does not belong to a formal political party, he appears as an independent on the ballot.