Say It Ain’t So, Hillary Clinton—You’re Open to the Idea of Raising the Retirement Age?

[Ferd Berfel]

Say It Ain’t So, Hillary Clinton—You’re Open to the Idea of Raising the Retirement Age?

At a forum in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton stood by her support for the death penalty, which made headlines. But her remarks about Social Security that day didn't get as much attention.

She offered a lot of the same rhetoric many Democrats are now saying, that we need to look at how the poorest Social Security recipients are faring and think about how to shore up payments there. But she also left the door open to raising the retirement age if there were a way to exclude people who are not working labor-intensive jobs, while at the same time not fully endorsing simply raising the tax cap, which would ensure the system is fully funded going forward.


TRIANGULATION....AGAIN. How do you justify this from a "Democrat"?

I simply do not trust her to keep Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA etc, out of the grubby hands of her Third Way DLC Wall Street Buddies.





http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/say-it-aint-so-hillary-clinton-youre-open-idea-raising-retirement-age

[JaneyVee]

1. It isn't so.

You guys need to stop falling for click bait.

[NCTraveler]

3. They just refreshed their browser, cleared their cookies, and clicked the link again.

The link replied "whoa buddy, this ain't a facebook poll."

"Click bait" caused confusion.

[riversedge]

5. #HillaryInNH will not raise the retirement age.

5. #HillaryInNH will not raise the retirement age.




From her town hall yesterday. Also nothing in the OP says she is open.

Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 30m30 minutes ago

#HillaryInNH will not raise the retirement age.
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Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 30m30 minutes ago

It's elitist to be talking about raising the age for social security at this point.
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Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 33m33 minutes ago

"As your president it will never get passed me" — #HillaryInNH on attacks on Social Security
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Hillary for NH Retweeted
Rachael Goldenberg ?@RachaelGoldie 44m44 minutes ago

Lots and lots of ppl here to see @HillaryClinton in the middle of the day in Berlin NH #HillaryInNH

[Thinkingabout]

2. Are you a socialists believer? If you are then you want to make sure SS continues after we are gone

[riversedge]

4. You need to reread your story!! She clearly says no way!

.....Thirdly, we do have to consider ways to make sure that the funding of Social Security does maintain the system. I think we have a number of options; this would be something that I would look at, I would not favor raising the retirement age. And I don’t favor it because it might be fine for somebody like me, but the vast majority of working people who have worked hard and have had a difficult, maybe last couple of decades trying to continue to work, it would be very challenging for them. If there were a way to do it that would not penalize or punish laborers and factory workers and long-distance truck drivers and people who really are ready for retirement at a much earlier age, I would consider it. But I have yet to find any recommendation that I would think would be suitable.

[Walk away]

6. People have been twisting Hillay's words for decades...

usually they are republicans but I guess anyone can play when they get desperate enough! Did you check out today's polls?

[Ferd Berfel]

7. They've also been making excuses for, and ignoring,

Her corporatist leanings

[Walk away]

8. "Corportist leanings" is my favorite!

That really plays to the hoi polloi on the Far Left Internet, but not so much in the real world as we are finding out. But I advise you to keep playing up the ideology as much as possible.

[Ferd Berfel]

10. Well, I guees you could infer something from this.....

[Walk away]

12. I infer that you are implying that the banks themselves are contributing to Hillary...

instead of people working for those companies. She is a two time Senator from New York. I live in a small suburb of New York City and I can look out my window and see four houses of people who work at Bank of New York and Merrill. None of us are wealthy and we all work for a living just like union members do. I am a life long Democrat and so are most of my neighbors. We have just as much right to representation as you do.
And, if you look down Hillary's list past your cut off, I am guessing you will find just as many union member's contributions as Bernie has.
My Democratic group is made up of teachers, police officers, stock brokers and doctors and every one of them enthusiastically supports Hillary and donates generously.

[CharlotteVale]

9. Despite all the desperate denials, she did say it.

It was like she's so used to equivocating, triangulating, and obfuscating that she didn't even realize that when she said she would consider raising the retirement age that it would stick out like a sore thumb.

Now she, and her swarming supporters, can't spin it away no matter how desperately they try. The more they attempt to, the more obvious it is that she let the cat out of the bag. Not that I trusted her anyway. She simply cannot be trusted with anyone's retirement...unless they have a golden nest egg.

[Deadshot]

11. By the time I'll get to retire, I'll already have been in the grave for six months.

[L0oniX]

13. I see lots of surprises in the future. Being thrown under the bus is so ...oligarchy.