quote:I say again, "If you are 69, should you be working on the roof today?"
Should you at 64? What does a person's chosen profession have to do with being entitled to someone else's money?
quote:End social security? What about the several hundred thousand I have paid in over the last 40 years? Do I lose that under your proposal?
I think people who have worked and paid in all their life SHOULD get social security and medicare coverage. I believe this was the original intent of the program.
Social Security was started with the premiss that current working people would have some of their paycheck taken and given to current "old age survivor's." This was justified by telling the those who were taken from that one day they too would get to take a piece of someone else's paycheck. All that money you paid is gone. It wasn't kept for you, it was spent. We are running out of people to provide paychecks from which to steal, and the system cannot be sustained.