JOBS your priority? You want jobs? I'll give you jobs...

[Kip Humphrey]

Poll question: JOBS your priority? You want jobs? I'll give you jobs...

LOWER the Social Security retirement age to 60 and the early retirement age to 55 and watch corporations empty as their 55+ employees choose retirement. Problem solved.

Oh yes, this could cost BIG bucks. Let's say that cost falls between, oh, say it costs $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. Guess it depends if you want to rehire the nation's workforce by opening up millions of EXISTING jobs to the labor market or pay the wealthiest 2% a Premium tax cut applied to their income above $250,000, a Premium that will cost about $700 billion dollars. America, choose: Premium tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% or, solve the labor problem virtually overnight for the $700 billion + maybe up to 6 of those shiny, new but soon-to-be antiquated, piloted, fighter jets.

AMERICA, vote:

Which do you want for your money?

Poll result (19 votes)
#1: [i]Premium[/i] additional tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% + 6 piloted fighter jets	(1 votes, 5%)	Vote
#2: Solve the nation's jobs problem virtually overnight	(12 votes, 63%)	Vote
#3: I don't have no money but #2 sounds real good	(6 votes, 32%)	Vote

[xchrom]

1. Lowering the retirement age is rational idea.

Especially considering the debt burden many younger
Workers will have and have now.

We need good ideas to put these people to work and move people
Up the wage scale.

[Wickerman]

2. Some economist on NPR suggested similar a week or two ago

Makes sense to me. And I would gladly give up my seat at the table for some young buck with better ideas and more energy when the time came - I just won't be able to afford to do so.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

3. IIRC Bernie Sanders has proposed this, too

[NorthCarolina]

4. That explains why it makes sense. The fact that it makes sense explains why

it will never happen.