[lbo-talk] Obama Realignment

Jenny Brown jbrown72073 at cs.com
Wed Jan 21 19:58:37 PST 2009


Shane Taylor wrote:

>Galbraith calls for lowering the age to enter Medicare to 55 and increasing Social Security benefits. This would encourage people to retire who might otherwise delay (opening up positions for everyone else), be one more step toward Medicare for all, and support retirees and the nearing-retirement whose plans have been decimated. I say, we argue for that and mark the response.

How about lowering the age to enter Medicare to zero and Social Security to 55. Or is that too European? (Social Security was originally an employment program.)

Jenny Brown



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