>

I've been working since age 15, and with this age raise, I will have contributed for 55 years and probably still get pennies.  But yay for my pension....oh so no pensions anymore?  What about pay raises that match and exceed inflation? No?  Well fuck
"We're scrapping all wheelchairs because people want to walk." >

This. A lot of people don't work jobs that you can do at 70. 
You can sit in Congress until the coroner collects your body (average age is 60). But you're not working in an Amazon warehouse at 65. >

There is a HUGE difference between 

I still want to be active and do something engaging with my time in retirement! 

and 

I cant miss any time this week or I lose my house >

100%.  I might want to still be able to be employed, and actively engaged,  but I don't want to have to feel hopeless and like I have no choice but to work through ailments until death. 
One is hopeful and healthy, the other is dystopian. >

My in-laws lost their asses in the 2009 crash. Well over half their retirement. They both went back to work full time. My mother in law is still commuting (a really shitty commute) 3 days a week. At 76. They thought they were all set, but had never switched their high risk investments to lower risk. That's a mistake we won't make! I have zero desire to be working past 60, thanks. >

Meanwhile finance bros are tooth and nail defending our broken investment system “well bro you can’t lose because it’s an 8% return average”. They forget that 8% return on $0 after all that imaginary money disappears is still zero… >

Bro it’s all good. I got 25% of my portfolio in crypto!  
/s >

“Yeah,but, I mean all currency has no value”-every crypto bro ever >

Social security is not stopping anyone from working longer. >

I'm surprised I had to come this far down the thread to see this. If you wanna work longer its not like it somehow stops you from doing so. I have a lady in my office that is 86. >

Fuck that lady. >

Little old for my tastes, but if you insist... >

Hey you, grandma fucker >

Im 52, its allowed. >

I am a late boomer. I am not very far from retiring and for 35+ years Social Security has been part of my long term planning. I have paid in and never missed a week, SO just when you think you are there... they want to take it away.
Republicans are bad people. >

I am an older member of Gen Z. I am very far from retirement and social security is not factored into my retirement at all because i have known my entire life that there's little chance I will ever see the money I pay in. It kinda pisses me off that I have to put so much money into something that won't exist by the time it's my turn to use it. >

well I paid in and I want it since it was factored into  my plan.  The issue isn't just the money I paid in, but the lost investment opportunities that I gave up to get this money in a few years. 
At least you can plan around it. >

I don't have any issue with you getting your money back. I take issue with the fact that your money was taken from the fund and used on other things so the only hope you have of getting anything back is for young people to put in money that we have been told our whole lives won't be there for us. I'm not mad at older people wanting what they gave, I'm mad at the system that turned social security into a government mandated ponzi scheme.
I have to give up those investment opportunities too. Sure I can plan around it but what you just said is that I can plan around thousands of dollars being taken from me every year. >


I'm mad at the system that turned social security into a government mandated ponzi scheme.

The issue isn't the system, but the inaction since 1985 to fix any of the shortcomings. >

The issue is the system that allowed the government to take over $1 Trillion out of social security and has not paid it back. >

Requiring it to be invested into low interest government bonds is the issue. They are losing money to inflation or there wouldn't be an issue. The bonds that supposedly protect social security from inflation only serve to hurt it when the interest rate is so low. You can go on to the social security funds webpage and see the interest rate average returns for 2021 we're 2.45 which is a higher than normal rate, again according to the social security. >


Requiring it to be invested into low interest government bonds is the issue. 

An what would you invest it in?  Its supposed to be low risk as it is much like a pension. >

They could just give social security higher interest rates that actually do the job of keeping up with inflation that is the reason for requiring it to be invested in the bonds in the first place. >

There are 8 million disabled Americans. All of us would like to work however many disabilities simply won't let us. We play hell to get the work credits to qualify for SSDI and the maybe $1,200 a month it gives. Most unable to work long enough for the credits are stuck on SSI, trying to live on $600 - $700 a month. They truly think more than 200% below the poverty line is living "high on the hog"... I'd love to see them try to feed themselves for $200 a month and think they're eating more than once a day. How they gonna handle the $170 a month for Medicare and the additional $75 for part D coverage so the medication itself is $85 a month? If you've managed to get into a sliding scale clinic the office visit might only be $35 but they will want to see you at least once a month. Good clinics usually run $75. If you have sleep apnea you get to look forward to paying almost the entire part B deductible on the first order of masks and hoses. They have to be changed out every three months but once you hit the deductible is only $50. The only way anybody is paying all that and affording rent is if they've managed to wait the 5+ years to get into public housing. Its the bare minimum required to sustain life but its only a third of your monthly income. God forbid you need clothes, towels, gas, make car payments, make any kind of repair, basic hygiene supplies, or have to pay for in home assistance. I'm watching my 70 - 80 year old neighbors sell their painkillers to afford the aid that comes to help them for a few hours every day. Fuck these crazy Republicans and their delusions. They ain't got a clue. >


The only way anybody is paying all that and affording rent is if they've managed to wait the 5+ years to get into public housing

Disabled guy here, I've been waiting over 5 years for targeted housing program to help me and... NADA. 
Starting to wonder who I should call. I'm in North Carolina. >

From the way republicans are taking things I’d say call an undertaker. >

I thought people no longer wanted to work, which one is it? >

I'm in my early 60s, and fuck anyone who wants to prevent me from collecting ful benefits at 67. I don't want to work until right before I die.
The GOP is a disgrace. >

You put the money into it for around 45 years.
And the GOP is saying  "hey nonamenolastname, we're gonna take your money you paid into SS and keep it for ourselves.  You want to work longer.  VOTE FOR ME!" >

I’m 36. I’d walk out tomorrow if I knew I’d have full benefits. >

I'm 61.  If I could get health insurance, I'd be OUT.  But I've had cancer and I'm not risking it. >

Glad that 'had' is the operative word there stranger, hope you stay healthy for many more years! >

"Slaves really want to be slaves" is literally an argument the slave States made. >

The more things change, the more they stay the same. >

If you vote for this party you are an idiot lmao >

And/or evil. >

• People want to work longer
• Women want to be raped
• Minorities want to be slaves
• Republicans want to fuck everybody
One of these things is true. >

How isn’t America on fire right now? >

Even as someone who loves my job, and would honestly love to keep doing it well into my golden years, I am honestly appalled at this guy's statement. How is that at all a justification for stripping away Social Security? >

It isn't of course.  Privatizing Social Security has long been a wet dream for the GOP.  
Wonder what they want to do with SSDI, are they going to axe benefits to the disabled too? >

I’m currently trying to get SSDI benefits and I’m extremely worried, which isn’t helping my Dysautonomia! Disability benefits need to be revamped desperately, but not like this… >

Such a disconnect between what they sell to voters and what they actually push in congress. They sure as hell don't run on destroying Social Security. >

Such a disconnect between what they sell to voters and what they actually push in congress. They sure as hell don't run on destroying Social Security. >

The problem is they DID run on this. Their voters are just too stubborn or stupid to realize. 
They TOLD us they were going to hold the debt ceiling hostage to cut Social Security and Medicare BEFORE the election. >

Haha that'll show those free loading blacks and Mexicans!!... Wait, what do you mean there's no longer SS and now I have to work until I'm 80?? They are hurting the wrong people!!! - Average GOP moron >

I’m retired.... I’d rather do a side hustle or even lap dance in a Mexican truck stop before going back to being an employee in some shit company! >


or even lap dance in a Mexican truck stop

That's oddly specific. >

It simply illustrates how resistant I am willing to “work longer” because some dipshit congressman says so! >

Or it's a secret fantasy. It's ok, we only judge a little. >

As long as they keep their hands to their sides, it’s all good! >

I'll take "Things no one ever thinks" for $2000 Alex. >

Yeah. I’m 71 and disabled. I would love to retire. My last propane bill was $400, and my electric bill was $349. >

In Pennsylvania, we have LIHEAP, which may pay a tiny portion of heating bills.
I shop for the lowest electric prices, too. >

^

Allen is a member of the Republican Study Committee, a House GOP panel that released a policy agenda last year calling for gradually raising the "full retirement age" from 67 to 70, partially privatizing the New Deal program, and mean-testing benefits.
As Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project, a left-wing think tank, has explained, raising the Social Security retirement age is "just a straightforward benefit reduction being expressed in an opaque way."
"Social Security does not have one retirement age. It has 96 retirement ages, one for each month between age 62 and 70," Bruenig wrote in October. "What people call the 'full retirement age' (FRA) is just a placeholder in a formula that determines the benefit level at all 96 retirement ages."

.....

House Republicans have repeatedly signaled in recent months that they will exploit every point of leverage they have—including a fast-approaching showdown over the debt ceiling—to pursue long-sought cuts to Social Security under the guise of "saving" the program from a non-existent financial crisis.
During a House Republican conference meeting last week, a slide presentation indicated that the GOP intends to use its narrow majority in the lower chamber to push for "reforms" to "mandatory spending programs"—a category that includes Social Security and Medicare.

...

Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill last week that "America's seniors cannot afford benefit cuts, including raising the eligibility ages for future Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries."
"Of course, the public is not demanding that Social Security and Medicare be cut. Quite the opposite: both programs remain overwhelmingly popular. A large majority of voters (83 percent) across party lines say they want to see Social Security expanded, not slashed, with the wealthy contributing their fair share in payroll taxes," Richtman continued. "Nevertheless, McCarthy has empowered a handful of ultra-MAGA members to dictate policy for the new House majority." >


A large majority of voters (83 percent) across party lines say they want to see Social Security expanded, not slashed, with the wealthy contributing their fair share in payroll taxes

Yet more evidence that the GOP does not want to govern. They want to rule. They see themselves and their wealthy donors a being above everyone else and they seek to harm the bottom 99% for the benefit of the top 1%. >

They are the latest iteration of democracy's oldest enemy, monarchism/feudalism. >

No, jackass, people want to not starve or live on the streets, and with the way the economy has been run for the past 40 years, they have to work longer to afford that. That would be less true if y'all stopped fucking with social security, as a start. >

Your math is off by a factor of 1,000. On the 4.5million workers it would be 25,000,000,000 dollars (50,000,000,000 including employer contributions) and so on as you go down your numbers. Its a staggering increase which barring and economic meltdown, would guarantee solvency and even make it possible to reduce the retirement age. >

Lol I knew that sounded off. I used my desk calculator and it ran out of digits. >

It’s amazing how brazen they are. McCarthy just swore they wouldn’t touch Medicare or social security. >

Its almost like these people like to lie they were basically saying they considered abortion to be a closed issue, obviously that was also untrue. >

I've never met those people in my travels..... >

You can defer Social Security and work while you collect social security. No is forced to retire.
This is just basic lies. >

You hear that old folks down in The Villages FL? You thought you were done and were gonna hang out in the sun or on the golf course for the last 10 or 20 years of your life? Republicans have a message of thanks for you: BACK TO THE MINES!! >

No no, they wouldn't possibly force THOSE people back into the mines. It's the other old people they're talking about. /s
I felt very sad to learn I had to educate my parents on the platforms of the individuals they vote for. Trimming their own benefits and making their life harder (drug prices, retirement, etc)...called me out saying "oh it's always 'the other sides fault' and you're just a liberal" . No look at their voting record, literally public information. 
It's a shame they prey on this vulnerable population like this. It doesn't occur to my parents (or grandparents) to just Google the information and find reputable non-biased sources to learn about things. >

Ironic that the biggest welfare queens vote against.... welfare? A bit like sitting on a tree branch and then sawing away at it because Tucker told you to. >

corporations are hiring 60+ year old's...really? >

WalMart has entered the chat. >

The United Slaves of America - the more slaves the better under Republicans! >

You take away the very fund I've been paying into since 6 and I'm gonna become the radical monster you fear. >

Each year, I hit my social security withholding cap around summertime- which means I don't have a single penny withheld for 6+ months of the year. I don't need that extra money and I wouldn't notice if was gone. Get rid of the income cap and the problem is solved. 
Hell people could probably retire 5 years earlier. >

Have republicans ever met a human being?  Ever??
Our entire species... the way our brains and bodies work... the trends in what becomes popular in marketplaces and scientific advancements... all of them hinge on REDUCING the amount of work we do.  Optical and auditory illusions do what they do to us because brains take shortcuts to avoid processing work.  We have big box stores and amazon dominating the marketplace because it's less work to shop for everything at once in one place.  Cell phone research gets funded while environmental solutions took forever to be taken seriously because it's more fun to make the poop animoji dance around than clean up the ocean.
No one in the history of ever has thought "I really wish I could work forever".... we're a species entirely dedicated to doing as little work as possible so we can return to rest and leisure... it's one of the main reasons we can't mobilize to hold any republicans accountable for their crimes. >

It’s always fascinating that the rural and poor vote against their interests so reliably. The brain poison the Republicans sell is very effective. I mean, if you pay any attention it’s obvious the Republicans want to create a permanent serf class with no economic mobility. They are open about taking away anything that would make working class lives more comfortable or mobile. >

This is your brain on Reagan. >

They can still work while having a pension if they want (and feel they physically can healthwise). But asking serious or mandatory work from 80+y old (or 62+ even) folks is kinda evil. Let em rest too as they want while still be able to pay their bills... >


~~kinda~~ >

One day we're going to shove UBI down these jokers' throats and they're going to love it. >

Why why WHY are Republicans always focused on taking our rights away, tearing things down, and always using social issues designed to divide us.. they're the American Taliban.. >

I'm 50. I watched my grandparents and parents work even after retirement in order to make ends meet. I've seen family members go the route of working 25 years for a pension that got renegotiated, cut, or stolen.  I've watched them put money into retirement plans,  savings, stocks, insurance and any number of things only to be similarly robbed or victimized and have to fall back on the bare minimum SS provided. I've watched my friends and family have to navigate medicare/medicaid bureaucracy for worse and worse outcomes. There seems to be no end to the pain.  So instead of focusing on retirement I think many people are focusing on how to live right now versus some idealized future that will never happen.  How do I travel now?  How do I enjoy the time and health I have right now? How do i enjoy my family now? Because in 15 years or so when I want to retire who know what kind of bullshit bureaucracy conservatives will have put in play to keep me from taking advantage of a lifetime of taxes I've paid into these systems. >

Fuck the GOP >

We are going to raise the SS age, but don't worry, you were never going to be able to retire anyway with all that student loan debt, massive mortgage, and private insurance cost. >

As someone that qualifies for aarp, corporate America loves cutting loose higher wage earners in their 50s. People who have physical jobs have a hard time making their bodies do what they want. One place that you can keep your job indefinitely is government. Our representatives are out of touch with reality. >

I cannot imagine my much younger coworkers working well with me over 60. They already act like I’m an idiot and I’m not 40. Not to mention how office spaces can’t accommodate aging bodies well. Mine barely had wheelchair access. >

This is more of that dogmatic right wing, pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality that wants you to believe in a strong conservative work ethic, in sacrifice and commitment to work, to the economy, the numbers that appear on monthly CPI and GDP reports, when in reality it's just that, dogma. Conservatives are inundated with this anachronistic nonsense, conditioned into believing that the American economy is worthy of your practical worship, your pride, your unwavering duty.
While make no mistake, it's a creed but it's not a practice.  Republicans moan and groan and whine about their jobs just as much as the next person, there are unemployed Republicans, there are "lazy" Republicans, there are miserable Republicans, and made miserable by their jobs yet willing to lie to others and themselves that there's glory and dignity in it, that they're happy and well content. It's the image of the ever dutiful, unyielding, hard working American that conservatives associate with, an image, an illustration, but not a reality. 
On the one hand these are self proclaimed "populists" who love to incessantly remind us of the dishonest and oppressive nature of the "establishment", of politicians in Washington, the cut and dry, "us vs them" worldview, but at the same time these pseudo populists with their half baked paranoid delusions are more than eager to indiscriminately embrace whatever narrative, message or platitude closely aligns with their political ideology, whatever appeals to their identity as a conservative. 
And over the years this image and message of the hard working, provincial American has granted the rich so much power over these conservatives. The investors, shareholders, business owners and CEOs, the campaign donors, the special interest groups, the politicians, the corporations, big oil, you name it, the self serving, agenda driven, rich and powerful absolutely do not have the best interests of these conservatives at heart, yet have so much fucking power and authority over these people who have woven their party and their political ideology into the very fabric of their identity. >

What's truly sad to me is how many people with a certain age group for Republicans every time. This goes way beyond simple stupidity, it's almost like a pathological sickness of the mind and soul. >

Am 65. Can not confirm. >

“People want to work longer.”
“Ok….? They can do that already….?”
“….We’re gonna make people do what they ‘want’ to do.” >

Always remember, these are the same assholes who wanted to sacrifice your grandparents for "the sake of the economy" back in Spring of 2020 >

Us Millennials will never be allowed to retire >

Gen X - never once thought retirement was a possibility. >

I have always assumed that my SS “savings” is just gone and will never find of a fraction of what I’ve paid in come back to me. >

I wish the people voting for these guys could read >

Given how the GOP has been lately, this has real "but the slaves loved their masters" vibes. >

since reagan theyve been destroying retirement >

Republicans don’t have a single good idea and haven’t since the interstate highway system >

Want to??!!! Need to. Due to other Republican mean spirited policies. >

Fuck you! You don’t know shit about normal fucking ass workers. Mother fucker! >

And there you have the easiest Democrat election campaign ever. >

I once asked a boomer lady what her dream job was and she said “Retirement.” >

I've been working and paying into the system since I was 15. I'm now 53. I want to leave my current job after 27.5 years of service. I work in an oil refinery and there is no way I want to work here past 59.5 years of age. I cannot and will not climb columns that are 100 ft + tall. >

Social Security and Medicare are paid for with a separate tax. Neither program adds to the national debt.
Social Security taxes are paid on only the first $147,000 of income (increases to $160,200 in 2023). If the cap was increased or removed, Social Security could be solvent in perpetuity.
Social Security has about a $2,500,000,000,000 surplus.
Congress has borrowed trillions from Social Security for government spending. >

Last week: Nobody wants to work anymore.
This week: Everybody wants to work longer. >

Fuck that guy. >

Whatever he is smoking I would like some too. I'm fucking counting the days until 70 and even then I will have to work in some form or another I'm sure. Fuck this asshat. >

GOP is full of shit >

Fuck off republican party >

from the article: Republican Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia suggested last week that he would support raising the Social Security retirement age—a policy change that would slash benefits across the board—because people have approached him and said they "actually want to work longer."
I believe what Rep Rick Allen meant say is that BUSINESS LEADERS approached him to say they "actually want [the people] to work longer." >

Just because corporations want people to work longer, doesn't mean the people themselves want to work longer.
Capitalism is such a race to the bottom.... >

The I’ve got mine screw everyone else. >

Republican voters who depend on SS and Medicare hear that and still vote Republican. I don't see them very job applications. >


Of course, the public is not demanding that Social Security and Medicare be cut. Quite the opposite: both programs remain overwhelmingly popular. A large majority of voters (83 percent) across party lines say they want to see Social Security expanded, not slashed, with the wealthy contributing their fair share in payroll taxes,

NO FUCKING SHIT.  if you pay into a system for 50+ years, you'd hope to get something out of it. >

Term limits is the only way to fix DC. >

As Paul Krugman has pointed out several times the large  life expectancy gains for the US population has mostly been in the upper class and have been negligible for the poor.  To say life expectancy is much longer now so retirement age should be raised is just saying doctors and lawyers are living to 90 so janitors can’t retire to 75. >

As a 56 year old who will have to choose in 10 years between finally being able to rest my already broken body or having a place to live, FUUUUUUCK YOOOOU, absolute piece of human excrement. For fucks sake. >

If only everybody had the schedule of those in Congress we’d be enjoying weeks of free time to do whatever we’d like. Must be nice. >

Like when shitstain Paul Ryan wanted to cut school lunch because children want their parents to pack a lunch for them. >

People do not want to work longer. Most of them don’t want to work at all. We only do it because we need money to be able to buy things necessary for our survival, like food, clothes and housing. Given the option, and assuming money wasn’t a factor, most people would happily do anything other than waste 8-12 hours a day 5-7 days a week slaving away at some menial chore. >

For fucks sake, I’m in my 40’s and I already want out of the workforce. >

Preach.  I’ve wasted half of my life at a job and still have another 25-30 years to go.  When we had the initial covid lockdowns (two months off work for me) I actually enjoyed day to day living.  No alarms, home with my family all day, time for whatever I wanted to do.  It made me understand what it would be like to be rich… >

This just pisses me off so bad, I watched my father work his whole life that I knew him, and everyday of his life he got dresses and went to work, and never really liked what he did. He told me at a young age just get used to the fact you will be working your whole life and hope it is at least something you like to do. Well around 62 years old he got laid off, he had to pay a fortune for cobra while out of work, then he got cancer. He burned through every bit of his savings he saved his whole for, and died after fighting cancer, and never got to that day where you get to sit back and retire and relax.
The average male live expectancy in the USA is like 77. You don't get full payment now of SS until 67. So most people will work from age 20 or so, I did anyway. Until 67. So you work 47 years and hopfully, no garentees that you can retire at 67, and maybe you get to relax for 10 years if your not sick and feel like shit by then.
They used to call this the "New Deal" well that deal sucks now, with health care being a major issue, and tied to employment, you are a slave to Medicare until 65 anyway, anyone will burn through savings that tries to stop working before 65. The fact that our politicians gave up a single year in SS makes me mad, this deal stinks already, we need a better deal now, not giving up more of the shit deal we have!
Republicans fighting to push the age and SS older, and also not allowing for Medicare at a younger age, to allow people to retire earlier if they want to is a real shame. And everyone should be mad about it, it effects everyone. >

I may choose to work longer when the time comes, but I definitely don’t want to have to work longer because I have no social security >

I read an article the other day about social security and they kept calling it an entitlement. Yeah. I’m entitled to the $$$ I’ve paid in for the last 45 years. It’s not charity. 
If they don’t want to keep it then I’d like a check for what I’ve paid into it. I won’t hold my breath.
If someone wants to work longer it should be their choice. Not because you can’t afford not to. >

I mean, our government couldn’t even properly care for and setup support for veterans or civilians impacted by the attack on 9/11. Our government doesn’t support pregnant women who still try to work during pregnancy or have good access to public programs to help them after they give birth. 
Are we shocked that now they want to slowly dismantling systems setup to help those in their golden years after they retire. 
The government doesn’t care about our wellbeing. The goal is to keep everyone as cogs in the system, generating them money and resources until we die. >

If some people want to work longer, Social Security isn't stopping them from working.  You don't magically get excluded from all jobs because you get Social Security.  You can still work until the day you die if you want.  Once again, Republicans make an incredibly stupid argument, and of course their base of morons will swallow it like the good little sheep they are. >

Republicans are truly delusional! >

These R's are so out touch with the reality of everyday life.  Since it does not affect them and their bloated retirement, they don't care. >

but i thought nobody wants to work anymore >

It would have to be illegal for them to not return money that they have been taking from your paycheck every year, right? That’s called stealing, anywhere in the world. >

Rick Allen (POS) GA: “people have approached him and said they ‘actually want to work longer’.”
Things that have never happened. >

After 30 years as a firefighter I am supposed to work longer?  People want 70 year old firefighters?  
What I would like to see is social security based on hours worked and not age.  Since I have been working about 3000 hours a year for 20 years I think I am ready to retire. >

People can work longer if they want. What does that have to do with their Social Security? >

I have stated this elsewhere. IMO, Republicans are compromised somehow because their policies make no sense; I believe that the intent is to destabilize our society. Texas just passed law to allow handgun carry without permit. Now Alabama. Texas delayed maternal mortality reports in the run-up to the mid-terms. Congress wants to cut SS and Medicare. So more violence, more death, and more poverty. Make it make sense. >

This is disgraceful. They give these nonsensical answers to clumsily hide that hate the average American. What’s insane is that thanks to propaganda millions of people vote for the GOP to cut benefits they depend on because they’re more concerned that CRT is going to make kids want to pee in a litter box and hate America >

Meanwhile these Congress people give themselves lifetime benefits and virtually all leave office much wealthier than when they entered it. >

They need to keep their f—-ing hands off our money! Republicans suck!!!! >

No one forces you to work less lol. >

Republicans spectacularly reset the bar for “out-of-touch” and “delusional” >

And we also demand less money, no benefits and we all demand to work 6 days a week with 12 hour days. >

And we lurch further into our dystopia >

Humans were not born to be workers. Your purpose as a person should not be tied to your value to a market. How people have been brainwashed into thinking their job defines their life is beyond me.
The goal of humanity should be to automate everything and just pay people a UBI to just live and be productive members of society in a social manner. The goal of humanity shouldn’t be to make sure people spend more of their life working than they do actually enjoying their existence. >

I don't think people are working past 65 because they WANT to.
It's another symptom of late stage capitalism. Everybody is convinced that they need a 6-bedroom McMansion, a lake property, a boat and a new Escalade every 2-3 years. Nobody can realistically pay for all of that on a salary that hasn't been keeping up with inflation for the last 15+ years. Not to mention the fact that these people are clogging up the job pipeline so they're stuck supporting their kids' expensive habits until they're in their 30s.
Perhaps the worst part is that a lot of these folks tried to save for retirement, but since pensions no longer exist, just about everybody got wiped out in the 3 "once in a lifetime" mega-recessions we've had in the last 20 years. >

The fuck we do! >

OK then I have been paying into SS for decades and I want mine now in full discounted to present value at a 10 year T bill rate >

This is evil. This is stealing money from old ladies purses level of evil. This is cartoonish arch villain evil. >

lets rephrase this ok? "Company and business owners want people to work longer, and we want to remove incentives that prevent them from doing so" >

Thank god they don’t have the senate and can’t pass shit like this >

Republicans are domestic terrorists >

Honestly, just killing yourself when you hit retirement age may become the most viable retirement plan >

"People want to work longer" or "nobody wants to work"... make up your minds!!! >

You’re missing the subtle slam on the “youths”. Boomers want to work longer… of course, they want to control shit forever and crap all over their kids and grand kids. It’s the Gen X, Millenials, and Zoomers that “don’t want to work”. >

Old people who want to work longer, can. No need to deny benefits through legislation. >

Get fucked, GOP >

This from the people who haven’t performed any credible work in years… >

As a 54 year-old looking foward to retiring at 62, I'd say this Republican divot can go jump in a sink hole. >

Republicans want people working longer. 
People, want to retire early. >

Says the people who work maybe thirty days out the whole goddamn year >

how can anyone vote for this garbage?
what kind of souless ghoul wants this shit? >

None of this discussion matters. Employers, in general, don’t want older employees. >

This guy can go fuck himself.  No person in their right mind (assuming their still have any mental acuity by then) wants to work longer than they need to.  Life isn't about working for the next paycheck, it's about spending time with friends and family enjoying actually being alive.  Paychecks are great when they pertain to more of the previous sentence, not working from the age of 14 to 70!!!  Besides this guy is a piece of shit homophobic bible thumping shitstain on this earth, hopefully it swallows him up. >

“Nobody wants to work anymore!” But wait “People want to work longer!” >

I don’t even want to work now >

I want to this douchecanoe and every one like him stand up in front of an authentic town hall of their constituents and say, “Who here thinks it’s a fine idea to raise the SS retirement age so you can work longer? 🤚🏻” The fact that their constituents don’t DEMAND this, while simultaneously refusing to look beyond their knee jerk single issues like guns & abortion, is why we can’t have nice things. >

I started working at 16.Spent 31 years in the steel mill. 8 years driving a semi. 6 more years working for a grain farmer. This guy can go fuck himself. >

Complete BS. Yet people will still vote against their own interests in order to own an imaginary enemy they call "the libs". >

And yet people will continue to vote for them >

You know it's not often the phrase" says literally nobody" is a literal interpretation of the situation but holy shit does it apply now >

I’m in my 40s and would be perfectly happy to never work another day in my life. It’s mostly a waste of time. >

"People want to work longer!"  
"Can we now get good Healthcare to stay alive that long?"  
"No, lulz. >

What the fuck did you say?!? “Want to work longer” GO FUCK YOURSELF! You know that people want? They want to enjoy life and pursue the things that make them happy; Not slave away for a measly paycheck until they are too old to anything but wait for the icy grip of death to finally take them >

Says the party that doesn’t want to do any real work. >

In a way.  We want to work longer because companies only give us 30 hours a week to avoid paying benefits.
But also we don’t want to work even those 30 hours a week.  We work to live. >

Republicraps have become megadickholes >

I thought no one wants to work anymore. >

Nope >

The fuck I do. >

Damn Repubs kowtowing to the rich again. I'm 76 and worked full-time until I was 71. This Boomer loves to spend time outside, kayaking, being a docent, and volunteering.  My rent takes my whole Social Security check every month, even with this month's raise. Our children and the generations who have been paying into Social Security since they joined the workforce don't deserve some fat rich a** taking away our safety net. Do they want more homeless on our streets? >

I've been paying in since I was 13.  I remember getting a statement when I was 19 showing that if I continued contributing the same salary until age 62, I would get \~5K/month.  (I was working at Wal-Mart in the early 90's).  Last year I got the latest estimate which shows if I contribute at the same rate that I am now, I'll get \~2800/month at age 67......  (and now I make far more money & actually hit the upper cut off for soc. sec.  *and* retirement age has already been pushed back)  
The system is a f*ck job and by the time I'm ready to retire, I'll be amazed if I get anything.  Total theft of my hard earned money. >

Call your congressman. Tell them this is a non starter and if it passes you will not vote for them ever again >

Tell me you’re out of touch with people without telling me you’re out of touch with people… >

I believe the the republicans should give everyone the same medical benefits the congress gets and the same retirement benefits as well >

That's because "work" for these people is sitting in a cushy office decorated with a huge allowance from the tax payers a couple of hours a day until they don't really feel like it anymore. having "working" lunches and cocktails at the nicest restaurants and bars in town, and collecting a huge nest egg through connections and barely legal backroom deals. Oh, and don't forget the long holiday recesses throughout the year where they can afford to vacation wherever they so well please. Of fucking course these people enjoy their "work" >

Poor excuse for a Congressman working for his constituents. No, people want to retire and enjoy life when they’re old ,not work at McDonalds. Who votes for these idiots ? >

Republicans are inhuman. They don’t care about you. >

God. No. No we do not want to work longer it’s already horrible enough >

I'm on Social Security Disability because of PTSD. If they legalize medical cannabis, MDMA, and psilocybin, I might be able to go back to work.
But no.
Even the Nazis had social welfare programs.
Is the GOP trying to be worse than Nazis or is it just happening organically? >

We are going to stop spending money on road work. People want to walk more these days >

And according to the Lt Governor of TX Meemaw and Papaw want to die for the economy. >

Translation: We want people to die before they can get SS. >

The ultimate insult is him pointing to his head.  Like the solution is so easy…just gotta use your brain.  
You absolute piece of shit.  How about gettin some of your friends that uttered this to go on record and tell that to us.  And while you’re at it ask them what their profession is so we can compare?
Are your friends pouring concrete?  Are they furniture movers?  Warehouse workers that are on concrete 14 hours a day?
No?  Really?  They all have white collar professions where they get to sit on their old, white wrinkled asses?
Never would have guessed it you insult to basic humanity. >

Self employed flooring installer that had to retire at 67 because of two shoulder rotator cuff tears.I paid into SS twice as much as people employed by me. Not counting matching my employees SS. We paid for our SS. It’s not an entitlement. Keep your lying hands off it. >

Fuck these entitled asshats >

These people have no idea what working people want.