Samuelsons repeated suggestion to lengthen the age of retirement is spoken like a well educated and successful professional with more than enough collected savings to survive with no social security if necessary, or work in a his profession that has few physical requirements.    

It an easy solution to offer when it has zero impact on your own family.  Does Robert Samuelsons reflect the lives of most Americans?  Hardly.

Samuelson endorses virtually unlimited Partime employment that avoid the labor protection of Fulltime work.    He supports right to work legislation to cripple collective bargaining in the private sector.

Conservative economic ideology has seldom given economic value to the non-management wage earner.  Those same 'free market' conservative care even less about an aging worker with diminished energy and higher health care cost.

It's cruel to add to the burden of wage earners when the vast majority of personal wealth is held in estates providing unlimited consumption.