Here's an idea to "save" Social Security....Raise eligibility age to 90

[Armstead]

Why not?

In for a penny, in for a pound.

[duffyduff]

1. Don't give them ideas. n/t

[stillwaiting]

2. That proposal would surely STRENGTHEN Social Security indefinitely!

You're a genius!!

And all the people said "Amen"...

[Cooley Hurd]

3. As soon as ALL Americans have the same access to healthcare...

...maybe. Until then, my rich boss and my poor neighbor's life-expectancy will have a significant gap. Both are under 90.

[Armstead]

4. ...and i was going to add that Medicare would also kick in at 90

[theaocp]

5. This goes hand-in-hand with

Making conservatives "look extreme". Bring back segregation and they'll look "extreme" when they have to play to their base! What rot.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. With the chained CPI, your benefits will gradually decrease

as you get older, so you might not get much of check by the time you're 90. Who knows, maybe euthanasia will be legal by then.

[Armstead]

8. No, you see we won't have to cut any benefits...YOu get same as now at 90

Until then, you have to figure something else out.

[kentuck]

7. That would certainly work.

But a lot of my friends are now dying off and they are between 60-65 years old. Everybody does not live to be 90...What about all those benefits they paid in?

[Armstead]

9. The benefits they paid in help to save it. Thats the beauty of it.

[99th_Monkey]

10. We may as well "lower the cap" as well, while we are at it

We can make Social Security taxes a cash cow for the US War Machine,
which will keep the program solvent until the year 3500 AD.

[olddots]

11. lets deglare Ayn Rand as our lord and saviour

[Downwinder]

12. I am lying on the safety net

and everybody is trying to cut it down.

[Armstead]

14. Not me....Just until you are 90

[Morning Dew]

13. 90? Screw that - if they want to eat, they gotta work.

A free ride for lazy oldsters is a terrible idea.