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Do you think Congress will raise the age to collect Social Security?

Asked by SquirrelEStuff (10007points) July 17th, 2011

Upbeat Boomers say they’re not old yet : http://usat.ly/qt8WR3

I saw this article in USA today. The title says it all. Baby boomers feel that 60 and 70 isn’t considered old anymore.
Raising the social security age is nowhere mentioned in the article, but I feel like this may be a propaganda piece of the beginning of a social security age hike debate.

Do you think that a consequence of the debt ceiling “debate” will be an increase in the minimum age to retire with social security? Many other countries have done so already and have used a financial “crisis” to justify doing so.
Is raising the retirement age during high unemployment a good thing? My opinion is that it will only help corporations because with high unemployment, people losing their unemployment benefits, and people not able to retire, it will increase the amount of job seekers, driving down wages, which is ultimately what corporations want.

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