Social Security needs public employees inside
How do we fix Social Security? Let’s first ask why is it broken? It’s broken because the people who are paid to manage the program have no “skin in the game.” They have their own extremely generous...
View ArticleSocial Security shortage can be fixed in a fair way
Thank you for your editorial “Can Social Security be fixed” (Oct. 17) shedding needed light on one of our nation’s greatest financial threats: the unfunded liability of the Social Security system,...
View ArticleReducing Social Security benefits isn’t far-fetched
Regarding Laura Hahn’s guest column “Social Security’s future depends on dialogue” (Oct. 14): I am 77 and have been receiving reduced Social Security benefits for 15 years. My main retirement is a...
View ArticleRaise early retirement age to bolster Social Security
I propose reducing the Social Security shortage by adding two years to all the government incentives to early retirement, thus keeping people on the job and paying Social Security taxes longer,...
View ArticleMany get reduced Social Security payout
One of your readers has suggested that reducing benefits may help resolve the Social Security problems. Most WWII veterans receive reduced Social Security payments. Persons born in the years 1917...
View Article‘Entitlements’ are essential to an orderly and just society
I find Walter Williams’ editorial “Federal govt perpetrates a form of legalized theft” (Nov 3) shocking, offensive, adolescent, and revealing of a very shallow understanding of the nature of society...
View ArticleEliminating cap on earnings will harm middle class
I read with interest Virginia Reno’s article “We like Social Security and know how to fix it” in your Sunday edition. In it, she (clearly a lobbyist) relays the simple and obvious solution to the...
View ArticleSocial Security needs a thorough reexamining
Regarding:”Something must be done to fix Social Security“: There’s not a single American who’s old enough to spend money that doesn’t realize that our economy centers around buying something, marking...
View ArticleA very simple fix for Social Security
Wow, what a spread you had on Sunday regarding the Social Security debacle! Lots of words. Unfortunately, all that hot air will never make it into the balloon to float the ideas. I, on the other hand,...
View ArticleCongressional shirkers unworthy to hold office
Accolades to The Enquirer for the Sunday Forum cover story concerning the fix so desperately needed for Social Security. I agree that we, the people who choose our lawmakers, need to continually make...
View ArticleIdeas for changing Social Security
Social Security benefits. My two cents. COLA INCREASE Maintain COLA increases. If there are any expenses not included (medical, gasoline, etc.) start including them. Establish a median average benefit...
View ArticleCongress does pay into Social Security
I was disappointed to read the letter “A very simple fix for Social Security” (Nov. 6). The letter writer is under the impression that Congress does not participate, which is a common misconception....
View ArticleQuick online search reveals answers about Social Security ‘fix’
The writer of “A very simple fix for Social Security” (Nov. 6) needs to get his facts straight. Congress, including the president and vice president have been contributing members of Social Security...
View ArticleOnly those who pay in should receive Social Security
A few things off the top of my head that would at least help save Social Security. Why do spouses get half of a working spouses social security? If you don’t pay in, you don’t take. out. That should be...
View ArticleWalter Williams’ tactics destroy the middle class
Why, when I paid into Social Security and Medicare for well over 40 years, do people like Walter Williams continue to call them “entitlements”? Is my life insurance an entitlement? How about the home I...
View ArticleSocial Security, Medicare are entitlements
I can’t believe I found two letters to the editor on the same day from people who totally miss the point of the issue they discuss. First, the writer of “Disappointed in Obama over unemployment” says...
View ArticleLet congressmen experience life on minimum wage
Our elected officials seem to have lost touch with the American people. Let’s try this: Make them live on minimum wage for six months – no perks, dependent on public transportation, no affordable...
View ArticleIt’s not the fault of the baby boomers
I read with interest “Unprepared world braces for retirement crisis” (Dec. 29), about the burden of retirees on corporations and counties. As a person who will hopefully be retiring from my profession...
View ArticleCity must invest in assets that return a profit
I was shocked to read in Friday’s cover story “Should railroad be sold to shore up pension system” that Mayor John Cranley said the city cannot own equities. This is crazy. Rather than dump our...
View ArticleThe pen is more dangerous than the gun
Our president says “I have a pen,” sounds similar to “I have a gun.” Which of the two have stolen or killed more? The pen is far more dangerous than a gun! With the pen the Social Security trust fund...
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