Tom Tomorrow: Statistics Don't Lie, Do They?

[babylonsister]

We all live longer than we used to, so of course we should raise the retirement age!

By Tom Tomorrow

[geckosfeet]

1. The deficit commision was an embarassment - a group of 6th graders could

have come up the proposals they made.

Instead of serious consideration of long term non-partisan deficit fighting measures, they throw a laundry list of politically charged issues against the wall to see what sticks and who bites.

Embarrassing, disgusting and worthy of a peoples revolution.

[paparush]

3. I HATE Erskin Bowles with the very fiber of my being. What is Mr.Nafta doing still crafting policy?

He laid the groundwork to gut the American workforce, and now he's laying out the options for taking more away from the working class.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Why Bowles is there? Barack Obama put him there.

With intention.

[truedelphi]

6. But it is not just these people on the commission - even Eric Schmidt CEO of

Google is out and about on talk shows, bragging about how Obama has him as an informal adviser on all things economic and that one of his top recommendations to the President is that we make people work a bit longer.

I mean, he probably envisions himself working till he's in his seventies - but then he's not a janitor, a nurses' aide, a mine worker, or any of a number of occupations that are difficult for people in their sixties to handle.

[elocs]

2. Not only are we living longer, but we boomers are going to live forever,

so Social Security will never have a chance to recover.

Now skeptics might say that 20 years from now the first boomers who retire will be in their middle 80s and will be dying off and so will naturally be less of a demographic burden on SS, but to that I say, "Horsehockey!" No, baby boomers will live forever and so our demographic burden on SS will never be less.

[Doctor_J]

5. Even TT can't find a way to make the cat food commission funny

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