Raising Age for SS? Are You Kidding?

The notion people are "living longer" is a myth. Life expectancy rates at birth mean nothing over the course of a lifetime. Furthermore, people in certain demographic groups are actually living shorter lifespans thanks to lack of access to health care, working in dangerous occupations, or being laid off and thus not having the money to properly care for their health.

What this is really about is cutting off Social Security for everybody by forcing them to work until they die. That is, of course, if full-time work can be found.

If it were up to me, the cap for paying into it would be raised to much higher than it is now, early Social Security would be lowered from 62 to 60, full benefits would be at 62 from 65 or 66, and the maximum benefit age would be lowered from 70 to 65. The WEP and GPO, which shaft public sector workers in states that don't pay into Social Security yet the people have worked in other jobs covered by it, would be abolished altogether.

Raising the benefit age fails to take into account the very real age discrimination that occurs against people over 50.