Two GOP lawmakers suggest the conversation of raising the retirement age 'has to be on the table': r

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two Republican lawmakers asserted the retirement age should be raised during Sunday morning interviews, Rolling Stone reports.

This comes as GOP members continue to insist they will keep their hands off of Social Security, since President Joe Biden called them out during his2023 State of the Union address for attempts to make cuts to the social program.

The Recount tweeted, "'For people who are in their 20s, their life expectancy will probably be 85 to 90. Does it really make sense to allow someone who's in their 20s today to retire at 62?' — Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on why we should talk about changes to Social Security and Medicare."

Link to tweet

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Furthermore, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), in a Sunday interview with CNN, asserted the conversation of raising the retirement age must be discussed.

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/two-gop-lawmakers-suggest-the-conversation-of-raising-the-retirement-age-has-to-be-on-the-table-report/ar-AA18wX85

[RKP5637]

1. FFS! - Well, I guess 95 might work for the GOP. All problems GOP solved. n/t

[we can do it]

2. One more thing to push away young voters....please proceed.

[edhopper]

3. A Senator should know the age

you need for Medicare and full Social Security.

It's 65 and for someone in their 20s SS will be 67.

So Sen Kennedy, you are only 72, why don't you take you broke down body and stand on an assembly line or pick up garbage all day.

Mother Fucker!

[Meadowoak]

6. Nobody would hire him.

[hippywife]

17. He's one I loathe in particular.

I always refer to him, with his BS put on southern drawl, as Foghorn Leghorn (R-LA).

[Walleye]

4. Life expectancy has been going down in this country

[Kaleva]

9. It's down to what it was in the black death days of the mid 90's

[ananda]

5. No, let's stomp it out on the floor.

Period

[mnhtnbb]

7. Life expectancy tables used by SSA

show males in their 20's in 2019 have a life expectancy of about 77 years.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

[Farmer-Rick]

12. Wow, 47 countries including Costa Rico, Kuwait and Cuba

Have longer lives than a man in the US.

"A male child born in the United States today will live to be 74.5 years old on average. This puts the male citizens of the US in 47th place in this ranking. On average, US women are 5.7 years older, reaching an age of 80.2. The world average age of death is a few years lower at 69.8 years for men and 74.9 years for women. Within the European Union, these are 77.8 and 83.3 years respectively."

https://www.worlddata.info/life-expectancy.php#by-population

[Tribetime]

19. And every country ranked above us as a public option for health care

Is every single one

[Farmer-Rick]

22. Ohhhhh, I didn't notice

Says it all right there.

Shitty capitalist health care leads to shorter life spans. Makes sense.

[SheltieLover]

8. Nope!

[Kaleva]

10. Life expectancy for a white male when SS was enacted was 61

65 for a white female and in the 50's for blacks

[Scrivener7]

11. Really. If people are living longer, they must work to make the rich richer for

longer. It's the American way!

[Farmer-Rick]

13. How about Congress changes the age at which they get their retirement

Pension to match Social Security?

They get their retirement at.....62.....not the 67 they have forced on us. And now they still want theirs at 62, while making ours 70.

Something's wrong with this picture.

[Baked Potato]

14. "Retire" on SS? I don't think PGOB (Phony Good Ole Boy) knows

what “retire” means.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. How much do we save if we cancel the lifetime health care bonus that legislators voted in for

themselves?

[lame54]

16. Put kids to work and never let them stop

[Arazi]

18. They need to get into some work boots and try being a lineman for a while

Or a plumber, carpenter, roofer, electrician, garbage hauler, mechanic, nurse, daycare worker, grocery stocker, etc etc etc. Any of a thousand critical tasks that people destroy their bodies working for decades…

Make these motherfuckers actually experience the crushing physical work of a manual laborer… at 72 years old looking-at-you-Sen-Kennedy… and come back on tv and say that again.

Until then stfu

🤬

[Baked Potato]

20. Agreed! They are so out of touch with regular folk,

in the economic sense, but they tap into the jealousy and envy real good.

[roamer65]

21. Congress critters should not get pensions.

Eliminate them.