This is part of a post by "As Time goes By" about the problem that the American elite are having with Social Security.
Huffington Post, Nancy Altman, founding co-director of Social Security Works and the co-author of the best book ever written on Social Security, Social Security Works! subtitled, Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All, posted the known policy positions on Social Security of all the candidates who participated in the Republican debate:
JEB BUSH: Privatize Social Security, Raise the Retirement Age As High as 70, End Medicare
BEN CARSON: Views unknown
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Make Social Security a means-tested welfare program and raise eligibility age to 69
TED CRUZ: Privatize Social Security, Raise the Retirement Age, Cut Benefits
CARLY FIORINA: May Raise Retirement Age
JIM GILMORE: Views unknown
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Cut Social Security Benefits for People who are unmarried and have no children
MIKE HUCKABEE: Against cuts but erroneously believes trust fund has been stolen
BOBBY JINDAL: Privatize Social Security
JOHN KASICH: Privatize Social Security, Cut benefits
GEORGE PATAKI: Raise Retirement Age, Shift More Medicare Cost to Seniors and People With Disabilities
RAND PAUL: Raise the Retirement Age to 70, Means-Test Social Security
RICK PERRY: Social Security is a "Ponzi Scheme," "Monstrous Lie"
MARCO RUBIO: Raise the Retirement Age, May Cut Benefits, Privatize Medicare
RICK SANTORUM: Raise Retirement Age, Means Test Social Security, May cut cost of living adjustments for current and future beneficiaries
SCOTT WALKER: Raise the Retirement Age
There seems to be a consensus, or close enough to call it that: all Republican candidates want to damage Social Security and therefore harm old people.
See anyone missing from that list? Yes, Donald Trump who, Altman quotes him as saying:
"'Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid. And it's not fair to the people that have been paying in for years and now all of the sudden they want to be cut.' He made clear, 'I'm not gonna do that!'"
Democratic frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders both advocate expansion of Social Security.
(You will find links for each candidate's statement at Altman's Huffington Post story.)
Here are a few good links about Social Security:
Did you know that Thomas Paine may have been the first person to think up Social Security. If you are historically minded, Nancy Altman explains.
ABC News lists the modest changes that would ensure Social Security for everyone for the next 75 years.
The National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) lists the top ten facts about the program everyone should know.
AARP has a page of facts about Social Security for each state of the union.
The CPBB link I gave you at the top has a lot of charts worth checking out that explain all the great, good things Social Security does for so many millions of Americans.
Let's also congratulate, in absentia, all the wonderful, unnamed people who for 80 years have fought so hard to preserve Social Security against its powerful adversaries - and let's all pledge to be one of them during this endless presidential election season.
- See more:
Huffington Post, Nancy Altman, founding co-director of Social Security Works and the co-author of the best book ever written on Social Security, Social Security Works! subtitled, Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All, posted the known policy positions on Social Security of all the candidates who participated in the Republican debate:
JEB BUSH: Privatize Social Security, Raise the Retirement Age As High as 70, End Medicare
BEN CARSON: Views unknown
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Make Social Security a means-tested welfare program and raise eligibility age to 69
TED CRUZ: Privatize Social Security, Raise the Retirement Age, Cut Benefits
CARLY FIORINA: May Raise Retirement Age
JIM GILMORE: Views unknown
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Cut Social Security Benefits for People who are unmarried and have no children
MIKE HUCKABEE: Against cuts but erroneously believes trust fund has been stolen
BOBBY JINDAL: Privatize Social Security
JOHN KASICH: Privatize Social Security, Cut benefits
GEORGE PATAKI: Raise Retirement Age, Shift More Medicare Cost to Seniors and People With Disabilities
RAND PAUL: Raise the Retirement Age to 70, Means-Test Social Security
RICK PERRY: Social Security is a "Ponzi Scheme," "Monstrous Lie"
MARCO RUBIO: Raise the Retirement Age, May Cut Benefits, Privatize Medicare
RICK SANTORUM: Raise Retirement Age, Means Test Social Security, May cut cost of living adjustments for current and future beneficiaries
SCOTT WALKER: Raise the Retirement Age
There seems to be a consensus, or close enough to call it that: all Republican candidates want to damage Social Security and therefore harm old people.
See anyone missing from that list? Yes, Donald Trump who, Altman quotes him as saying:
"'Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid. And it's not fair to the people that have been paying in for years and now all of the sudden they want to be cut.' He made clear, 'I'm not gonna do that!'"
Democratic frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders both advocate expansion of Social Security.
(You will find links for each candidate's statement at Altman's Huffington Post story.)
Here are a few good links about Social Security:
Did you know that Thomas Paine may have been the first person to think up Social Security. If you are historically minded, Nancy Altman explains.
ABC News lists the modest changes that would ensure Social Security for everyone for the next 75 years.
The National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM) lists the top ten facts about the program everyone should know.
AARP has a page of facts about Social Security for each state of the union.
The CPBB link I gave you at the top has a lot of charts worth checking out that explain all the great, good things Social Security does for so many millions of Americans.
Let's also congratulate, in absentia, all the wonderful, unnamed people who for 80 years have fought so hard to preserve Social Security against its powerful adversaries - and let's all pledge to be one of them during this endless presidential election season.
- See more:
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