Would cutting Social Security?

It will collapse before any president committed that political suicide.

Retirement age must be raised and self directed investments need to be implemented and incorporated as an option

Like the OP doesn’t know the answer.

Will we save money if we take away earned income from tens of millions of Americans? F’ing duh.

Let’s continue to force people to pay into SS but not pay them when they retire.

While we are at it, let’s cut all federal grants to states for police and fire protection so their salary is cut to save even more money and let’s make every person who works at a federal prison a slave and force them to work for food only.

The short answer is there’s lots of ways to save a gabillion dollars.

Great way to lather yourself in vote repellent.

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This 60 year old disagrees

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I’m 57, so I get it

But the retirement age MUST be raised

It will happen, question is when, and where do they draw the line to grandfather people in - the blowback will be enormous, so you can count on it not affecting you (or probably even me at my age) ; but people in their 30’s and 40’ will see the retirement date moved at some point

@chicken

I beg you to prevent new guys from starting threads

they already cut my social security in 1994 were you still in diapers then? last year the max out on social security was raised to 176k. by the way jethro if i wait to claim my social security to age 67 i'll get 4k if i wait till age 70 i'll get 5k they've cut my social security what more do you want bevis, to take my house and give it to you?

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But the retirement age MUST be raised

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they've done that jethro the new retirement age is 70.

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Retirement age must be raised and self directed investments need to be implemented and incorporated as an option

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We take care of ourselves, improve medical science, and for what? So we can work even more? So we can pay more taxes? So we can keep funding welfare, foreign countries, and politicians' bank accounts at the expense of our golden years?

What's the point of increasing life expectancy if retirement age keeps getting pushed closer to death?

Instead of forcing innocent people to work more to "fix" a broken system, how about we stop stealing money from them so they don't have to work until they die? How about we stop intentionally devaluing our money so that money made 20 years ago isn't useless today?

By just going along with increasing the retirement age, you are causing American workers to suffer for the sins of congress. You are letting congress off the hook by accepting to give up more of your life to cover up their failure.

They intentionally screwed you, and anyone willing to just give up years of retirement so politicians can protect their interests and offer you a "solution" to the problem they created is a doormat. And they've actually convinced many that giving up years of their life is the right and conservative thing to do.

Do government retirees get a pension? Cut that