We will however face the same issue. It seems inevitable. The age at which one can collect SSI will probably increase a year or two or three.
Now what about the fact that millions upon millions of people are now unemployed? We have a huge mountain of problems to work through. We already know the Republican answer, that would be to scrap SSI and Medicare ASAP. They are still quite furious with FDR for imposing "radical socialism" on our benign and happy lands. Medicare came later, but why not blame "socialists" anyhow.
How about we go by party affiliation. If you are a Republican, no SSI or Medicare for you. Works for me. You want to see Republican voter registrations trail off real fast...
CS Monitor: Like France, will US soon move to boost retirement age?
Boosting the age limit in the US is one way to help make Social Security solvent, many economists say.
In a September USA Today/Gallup poll, 77 percent of Americans said they agree that the rising cost of Social Security and Medicare "will create major economic problems" for the US in the next 25 years, unless changes are made to these entitlement programs.
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Another Obama betrayal! If the voters hand us over to the GOP again you can bet that Obama will make common cause with his pals in the GOP to cut SSI and Medicare and then claim he had to listen to the voters. He only listens though to the far right it seems. Does this all sound familiar? I can also tell you that he will be against cuts before he's for them and that were about to be dazzled once again by his verbal foot work. Remember the game he played with everyone on the Public Option last yr? This is exactly the game he'll play with SSI and Medicare. Obama isn't a Progressive he just barks like one to get stupid people to vote for him and the D's. Both parties work for the same bankers and they are merely playing with us and our families. The only change we can expect from either is change the wealthy, bankers, and BIG Corps. approve of and profit by, because they own the so called system and if voting actually changed anything anymore it would be immediately outlawed by the SCOTUS and it's corrupt Corporatist majority.
The power and money is in the hands of the few. Chomsky has pointed out many times that there is only so much that a candidate can do to move the country in a progressive direction. We call it rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Obama gets points for what he has not done. For example he hasn't started a new war, at least yet. He doesn't have a rabid right wing reactionary as VP. Obama is a reprieve from the coming desolation of the next right wing extremist president.
It's sad that this is all we can expect anymore because the $$ is so strongly in control of this society now and doesn't intend to let go or allow any change while it can.
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