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Sat Feb-06-10 05:15 PM
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| 1. Put a million to work by throwing a million out of work? |
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People can't afford to retire. Why is anyone seeing this as a good thing?
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| -Marcy Winograd: Put 1 Million Unemployed to Work By Lowering Retirement Age |
babylonsister |
Feb-06-10 05:12 PM |
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Put a million to work by throwing a million out of work? |
jmowreader |
Feb-06-10 05:15 PM |
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But they could afford to... |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Feb-06-10 05:17 PM |
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Social security does not come near to equaling a salary |
frazzled |
Feb-06-10 05:26 PM |
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For many, it is not the social security, it is the medicare that stops them. |
tsuki |
Feb-06-10 05:35 PM |
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exactly. |
merh |
Feb-06-10 07:53 PM |
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Social Security plus my retirement would be a good income for me |
proud2BlibKansan |
Feb-06-10 05:36 PM |
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As would I! |
FLDCVADem |
Feb-06-10 09:05 PM |
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Sixty is the new forty? Hogwash. |
virgogal |
Feb-06-10 06:25 PM |
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How old are you? At sixty if you've worked a job that |
shraby |
Feb-06-10 07:14 PM |
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Manual laborers might wish to take this ... |
frazzled |
Feb-06-10 09:24 PM |
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bwahahahahahahahahahah -- uhh nooo they wouldn't |
Donnachaidh |
Feb-06-10 05:32 PM |
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Um, this is voluntary right? So the people that take it would be those that can afford to? |
Go2Peace |
Feb-06-10 06:12 PM |
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I think they are suggesting that by lowering the age we can get onto |
jwirr |
Feb-06-10 05:19 PM |
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Which is the opposite of what our government has been trying to do. |
aquart |
Feb-06-10 07:04 PM |
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I don't think she's advocating forced retirement. nt |
sufrommich |
Feb-06-10 06:58 PM |
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Dupe. nt |
sufrommich |
Feb-06-10 06:58 PM |
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With today's hourly reductions people could collect benefits and continue to work. |
Skink |
Feb-06-10 05:16 PM |
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Why accept permanently scaled back social security payments, who can live on these? |
NYC_SKP |
Feb-06-10 05:19 PM |
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Obviously Ms. Winograd hasn't investigated the gap between |
Tansy_Gold |
Feb-06-10 05:30 PM |
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Yep. We were duped back in the 80's and 90's about the global economy. Well, some of us. |
NYC_SKP |
Feb-06-10 05:42 PM |
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This is VOLUNTARY. Nobody would be made to do it |
Go2Peace |
Feb-06-10 06:14 PM |
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Yes, and I think she's right |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 06:56 PM |
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They do that in Europe as well. |
enlightenment |
Feb-06-10 05:51 PM |
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If You Have Any Info/Links To That, I'd Truly Appreciate You Posting Them... |
WillyT |
Feb-06-10 07:47 PM |
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i`d love to have medicare right now. |
madrchsod |
Feb-06-10 05:20 PM |
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This doesn't create one job. |
grytpype |
Feb-06-10 05:22 PM |
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Bingo! |
Skidmore |
Feb-06-10 05:26 PM |
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if anything, it puts MORE stress on the local governments |
Donnachaidh |
Feb-06-10 05:34 PM |
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It's VOLUNTARY |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 06:59 PM |
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and it's incredibly stupid. |
Donnachaidh |
Feb-06-10 07:10 PM |
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Well, heaven forbid |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 07:20 PM |
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But, but, it's a Jobless Recovery! |
leftstreet |
Feb-06-10 05:50 PM |
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Put 8 million back to work |
AllentownJake |
Feb-06-10 05:23 PM |
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Social Security would collapse... even if benefits are scaled back. |
DCBob |
Feb-06-10 05:25 PM |
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Don't buy the BS that Social Security is failing |
Go2Peace |
Feb-06-10 06:22 PM |
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But until that happens SS is still at risk. |
DCBob |
Feb-07-10 05:15 AM |
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What are they going to live on? |
Sanity Claws |
Feb-06-10 05:28 PM |
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This is voluntary... SS used to allow retirement at 58, I don't get all the excitement |
Go2Peace |
Feb-06-10 06:23 PM |
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From where are you getting this? |
FLDCVADem |
Feb-06-10 09:28 PM |
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65 with full benefits. You used to be able to retire early with lower payments |
Go2Peace |
Feb-08-10 02:04 AM |
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People live on it now |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 07:03 PM |
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I don't see it as so rosy |
Sanity Claws |
Feb-06-10 07:05 PM |
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If they want to work past 60 |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 07:08 PM |
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I certainly felt like I was doing the altruistic thing |
Blue_In_AK |
Feb-06-10 05:34 PM |
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Seems to be in philosophical dissonance with anti-age discrimination laws |
HereSince1628 |
Feb-06-10 05:39 PM |
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put 3 million to work by passing Medicare for All |
librechik |
Feb-06-10 05:46 PM |
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Wow I am ahead of my time, I was laid off a couple days |
doc03 |
Feb-06-10 05:49 PM |
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The only problem is that we have not fully recovered what was lost in our 401k's. |
blue neen |
Feb-06-10 06:05 PM |
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Then don't do it |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 07:06 PM |
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I'll take it. nt |
cadmium |
Feb-06-10 06:26 PM |
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Bad idea. We need to shelve the ponzi scheme mentality. |
EmeraldCityGrl |
Feb-06-10 07:00 PM |
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Social Security is not a "Ponzi Scheme" |
lolly |
Feb-06-10 07:12 PM |
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No SS is not a ponzi scheme... |
EmeraldCityGrl |
Feb-06-10 07:30 PM |
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Recommend -- this is a voluntary idea -- and people used |
xchrom |
Feb-06-10 07:49 PM |
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I personally know of 8 people who work for insurance only |
Sheepshank |
Feb-06-10 08:04 PM |
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Give us full-blown socialized medicine and many will retire. |
roamer65 |
Feb-06-10 09:28 PM |
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I think it is a really good idea. |
OhioBlue |
Feb-06-10 09:46 PM |
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Didn't Dennis Kucinich suggest the same thing the other day? n/t |
secondwind |
Feb-08-10 02:10 AM |
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