http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/us/18aarp.html?_r=1&hp">AARP Is Open to Future Cuts of Social Security Benefits
WASHINGTON — AARP, the powerful lobby for older Americans that has been seen as one of the leading opponents of Social Security benefit cuts, said on Friday that it was open to modest reductions in benefits for future recipients.
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“Our goal is to limit any changes in benefits,” John Rother, the group’s policy chief, said in a telephone interview, “but we also want to see the system made solvent.”
Mr. Rother said that the group’s stance on possible cuts, which was first reported in The Wall Street Journal in Friday’s editions,
should be seen less as a major change in position than as a reflection of the political and financial realities facing the Social Security system and the country as a whole.
So now they're admitting that they've changed positions - but it's not a
major change, they say. Of course, that's bullshit: raising the eligibility age is an enormous lifetime cut, particularly for low-income people
http://fdrdemocrats.org/the-common-sense-guide-to-social-security/3/">who live an average of 5.4 years less than higher-income recipients.
Once again: THERE IS NO REASON TO TOUCH SOCIAL SECURITY AT ALL. Unless the economy soon gets MUCH worse than it is today, and stays that way for many years, Social Security is fully-funded as far into the future as has been tested (75 years):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x931203">Social Security: the little secret that's fooling even most DUers
(The comments from NY Times readers are particularly interesting.)
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