I had a chance to briefly talk with our local congressman in heavily democratic Boulder, Colorado the other day. Jared Polis spoke glowingly in support of the deficit commission and the ‘progressive’ nature of Obama’s appointments to which I disagreed. He said increases in the retirement age were needed in order to ‘save’ social security. I suggested lowering the retirement age so as to help the massive unemployment rate. He laughed and said he didn’t see how we could afford it. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to argue that deficits don’t matter - a subject I discuss at length on my site.
Leave it no doubt that most democrats are prepared to cut social security in order to ‘save’ it. Also, leave no doubt that a rise in the retirement age is a substantial cut.
We need to call these democrats out and demand they support the struggling worker.
Jim
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