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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5536180" data-attributes="member: 58386">When Lloyd Bentsen was Treasury Secretary he advocated for raising the retirement age to 70. He had nothing to lose politically and was ageing and not in the best of health so he spoke freely about the matter.Nikki Haley just the other day called for raising the retirement age. Only trouble was her spine wasn&#039;t strong enough to allow her vocal chords to say the age she wants it to be raised to. Now try telling that to a person in a labor intensive job. Let&#039;s say to a 43 year old stone mason....&#039;Hey pal sorry to have to tell you this but we&#039;re going to tack 3 maybe 5 more years on that you&#039;ll have to work until you can draw full benefits&quot;. To do this enough people will have to be willing to sacrifice their political careers....and who do you think is willing to do that? We see today what has happened in France when the plan was announced to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5536180, member: 58386"] When Lloyd Bentsen was Treasury Secretary he advocated for raising the retirement age to 70. He had nothing to lose politically and was ageing and not in the best of health so he spoke freely about the matter. Nikki Haley just the other day called for raising the retirement age. Only trouble was her spine wasn't strong enough to allow her vocal chords to say the age she wants it to be raised to. Now try telling that to a person in a labor intensive job. Let's say to a 43 year old stone mason....'Hey pal sorry to have to tell you this but we're going to tack 3 maybe 5 more years on that you'll have to work until you can draw full benefits". To do this enough people will have to be willing to sacrifice their political careers....and who do you think is willing to do that? We see today what has happened in France when the plan was announced to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. [/QUOTE]

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