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Title: Work Till 70? Yes, if Boehner and Republicans Have Their Way
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Published: Oct 30, 2010
Author: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/10/26/work-t
Post Date: 2010-10-30 09:40:47 by tom007
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Work Till 70? Yes, if Boehner and Republicans Have Their Way

by Mike Hall, Oct 26, 2010 Bookmark and Share 426Share

If Republicans take over Congress, House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner says he will move to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70. That might not seem to be a big deal to someone who has spent his life in cushy offices with fancy perks, luxury cars, good health care and not much heavy lifting.

But for millions of seniors in physically demanding jobs, it’s a big, big deal. A new TV ad from Protecting America’s Retirees, an independent project of the Alliance for Retired Americans, takes a light-hearted look at the very serious subject of forcing seniors to stay on the job until age 70.

The ad will air in five closely contested House races in Arizona, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania and in the Pennsylvania Senate race between Rep. Joe Sestak (D), who has vowed to strengthen Social Security, and Rep. Pat Toomey, who wants to raise the retirement age and privatize Social Security.

The ad reaches out to seniors who may be voting for Republicans because they want change.

You’re hoping things will change?

Hope you’re also planning to stay on the job.

Because at least one change means seniors will have to work. And work. And keep right on working.

Yes—that’s right. The Republican leadership wants to raise your retirement age to 70.

The ad shows, among others, a firefighter, construction worker, delivery person and lifeguard struggling on the job in their later years.

Alliance Executive Director Edward F. Coyle asks:

Can you imagine working until 70? In physically demanding jobs like manufacturing, construction, and the service sector, I just don’t see how you can.

In September, The New York Times took an in-depth look at the toll physically demanding jobs take on older workers. Click here.

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Tags: Alliance for Retired Americans, Joe Sestak, John Boehner, labor, Labor 2010, Pat Toomey, Protecting America’s Retirees, Social Security, union, union blogs, unions, Working Families Vote

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#7. To: tom007 (#0)

Olde Age Assistance was never meant to be a sole source of retirement income.

Somehow people got the foolish notion that .gov was going to take care of them when their working days were over, and are belatedly awakening to reality.

Lod  posted on  2010-10-31   11:39:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Olde Age Assistance was never meant to be a sole source of retirement income.

Somehow people got the foolish notion that .gov was going to take care of them when their working days were over, and are belatedly awakening to reality.

However, given that the government takes 15+ percent of most workers income for 45+ years, soundly managed and invested, that should yield an indefinite stipend upon which to live in one's waning years. The problem is not the workers who have paid into this "fund" all of their lives but the malfeasance of Congress; that the money was stolen, used imprudently and managed in such a fashion that would land the trustee of an equivalently managed private retirement fund in prison for fraud for the rest of their life.

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-10-31   14:03:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

exactly- the notion that so called conservatives would resent those who were fleeced for daring to expect a meager return, & not want to work into their 70s(!!) is mind-bogglingly obscene.

Artisan  posted on  2010-10-31   14:44:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

exactly- the notion that so called conservatives would resent those who were fleeced for daring to expect a meager return, & not want to work into their 70s(!!) is mind-bogglingly obscene.

And it is not solely a Republican creation, although the stone hearts of mainstream Rockefeller Republicanism of "let them eat cake" is not to be left without comment. It was LBJ - that little pustule from a corrupt Machine Run system - a Demoncrat, who first breached the wall. The looting of Social Security has been done willingly and with the assent and aid of both of the ruling halves of the one party Demoncrat, and Republocon alike.

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-10-31   15:07:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I agree with O_I. and I add that the nature of our job market for many people is that they will not be allowed by the employers to work until 70. Already, people up over 55 have an extremely difficult time of finding a job. The whole thing is a bad joke.

Red Jones  posted on  2010-10-31   15:38:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I agree with O_I. and I add that the nature of our job market for many people is that they will not be allowed by the employers to work until 70. Already, people up over 55 have an extremely difficult time of finding a job. The whole thing is a bad joke.

Yes, it is a very, very bad joke. Soon those contemplating suicide will say to heck with it and take out some elite with themselves. I can see that happening in the not too distant future if things don't begin to change fast.

RickyJ  posted on  2010-10-31   23:56:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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