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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Your cynicism is wonderfully fresh, except that it ignores what Democrats actually did when Clinton was President. But sure, a pox on both houses, and the people too.
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Saying Clinton did the under 40 or 50 crowd any good is like saying your better off driving off a cliff at 100 miles per hour than 110 miles per hour. You're fucked either way.
A proposal that would help the under 40 or 50 crowd is to immediately increase the retirement age for social security and medicare to a year beyond life expectancy, and every three years increase it to a year beyond life expectancy. Life expectancy in 2001 was about 77. If someone becomes disabled due to old age, let them collect disability earlier. If someone becomes disabled such that they are unemployable at a job with health care benefits, let them collect medicare earlier. Increasing the retirement age, right now, to 78 (with an exception for people that right now are at least 63) would help the under 40 or 50 crowd.
Originally, social security was set up this way. The retirement age was initially higher than life expectancy. In fact, this proposal is even more generous to oldsters because it provides disability benefits and social security originally didn't.
