Sen. Sherrod Brown: Don't Raise Social Security Retirement Age. Raise the Pension Retirement Age on

[babsbunny]

Sen. Sherrod Brown: Don't Raise Social Security Retirement Age. Raise the Pension Retirement Age on Capitol Hill (Is 62 & Lower)

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13010

Earlier this year, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) denounced the idea of raising the retirement age for social security eligibility in this news release:

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Following yesterday's release of a budget proposal that would dismantle Medicare and leave the door open for raising the retirement age on Social Security to age 69 or higher, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) held a news conference call today to outline new legislation he is introducing that would require Members of Congress to "walk in the same shoes" as working Americans.

Brown's bill, the Shared Retirement Sacrifice Act of 2011, would amend the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to directly tie the Social Security retirement age to current and future Members of Congress' access to their federal retirement benefits. On the call, Brown released a county-by-county estimate showing the number of Ohio senior citizens that receive Social Security benefits.

[dkf]

1. Being a congressperson isn't supposed to be a career.

[montanacowboy]

2. But they collect a Life Long Pension

which we the taxpayers pay for

and don't forget their health subsidized insurance which we pay for

and if they die, their spouse's get it

where is our life long pension?

these jokers should make what the going wage is in the District of Columbia for people who only work part time

Goddamn parasites for life

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. What montanacowboy said!

:thumbsup:

They have a lot of fucking nerve. :grr:

[Hippo_Tron]

3. Not in 1789 it wasn't, but today it's necessary to have career congresspeople

There are places with part-time legislatures and term limits. They're mostly red states in the south. How well would you say their governments are functioning?

[montanacowboy]

5. Probably as well

as Washington DC is ... not

they are non functional and use Congress as a stepping stone to billionaire hood.

[cali]

6. My state has a (very) part time legislature. And I think we've got by far the best

state gov in the country. Make that by leaps and bounds.