Ezra Klein: Why rich guys want to raise the retirement age

[rickyhall]

34. Raising retirement age again?

My retirement age is already up to 66 and they want me to live on less than $1000 a month. I could go to 70 and get more money if I'm still alive.

Let me tell you, I started working on my dad's dirt farm in
Colorado at 6, feeding chickens, collecting eggs, raising rabbits, slopping hogs while walking through a foot of snow. We were so poor my dad and I hunted cottontails and poached deer at night just to have fresh meat instead of spam, we had a single pot bellied stove to keep us warm if we sat withing 3 feet of it. 5 of us lived in a 2 bedroom house with me sleeping of the 3rd bunk. Later we found a slightly bigger house so I didn't have to sleep on bunk but it was so could my mom got me a beagle to sleep with and keep me warm at night. We worked a garden for vegetables. My mom baked bread not for fun but so we could eat 3 meals a day. My dad worked at the VW dealership 45 miles away in Colorado Springs. One cold night his car failed so he walked 2 miles in a 15 degree below zero 3 foot blizzard barely surviving.

That's just part of my life story of working my ass off for poverty wages. I watch old TV shows like the Andy Griffith
Show and realize the poorist man in Mayberry owns his own
house. I own a 24ft. gooseneck trailer that have to rent the
dirt it sits on just so I can eat. When the ACA goes into effect I'll have my first health insurance if Bonehead doesn't destroy it.

I just turned 57 so actually I've been working over 50 years already. Most people work from about 18 to 65 or 47 years. I've done that and they've already pushed my retirement to 66 for partial SS and 70 for full compensation. Now the Boneheads are talking about extending it again. It's not my fault people like my friend's mothers keep living into the late 80s OR Raygun cut off my college money to give Rich White Bastards a free ride OR an illegal, ininsured immigrant broke my back and Chief Auto Parts didn't want a broken employee OR oldman Bush bankrupted the country OR the Dot Com Crash ended my
Texas Rehab financed tech career before it actually started OR cheating W bankrupted the country again with two illegal wars OR some unemployed black guys beat the hell out of me for pizza and pay back for what RWBs did to them OR the Teabagger Repugs gerrymandered their way into the House. At least my mother died of cancer at 63 so the RWBs got out of her retirement but those same RWBs .want to raise my retirement age again! F-ck them.