Golden Oldie
June 9, 2010 - by
Cal Cunningham may be a young gun, but he’s firing an old Democratic bullet: Social Security.
Cunningham’s campaign is battering Elaine Marshall because she “suggested raising the current retirement age of 67 to receive full Social Security benefits.”
Cunningham sent an email this week proclaiming, “I went on the record to commit to protecting and strengthening Social Security if elected to the Senate.”
Over the years we Democrats have made an art of – as Republicans whine – “scaring seniors about Social Security.”
But Marshall
Social Security and Medicare must be pretty good deals, given how bound and determined people getting them are to protecting them. Including Tea Party types who are gung-ho to cut every other kind of spending.
For my part, I’ve supported my kids for almost 21 years. Now it’s payback time.
And I’m a walking fiscal time bomb. I have an 81-year-old mother who remarried last year. My grandmother is still living – at 106!
I’m looking forward to the young folks supporting me for at least 40 years. They’d better get to work – and keep their hands off my Social Security.
Golden Oldie
June 9, 2010/
Cal Cunningham may be a young gun, but he’s firing an old Democratic bullet: Social Security.
Cunningham’s campaign is battering Elaine Marshall because she “suggested raising the current retirement age of 67 to receive full Social Security benefits.”
Cunningham sent an email this week proclaiming, “I went on the record to commit to protecting and strengthening Social Security if elected to the Senate.”
Over the years we Democrats have made an art of – as Republicans whine – “scaring seniors about Social Security.”
But Marshall
Social Security and Medicare must be pretty good deals, given how bound and determined people getting them are to protecting them. Including Tea Party types who are gung-ho to cut every other kind of spending.
For my part, I’ve supported my kids for almost 21 years. Now it’s payback time.
And I’m a walking fiscal time bomb. I have an 81-year-old mother who remarried last year. My grandmother is still living – at 106!
I’m looking forward to the young folks supporting me for at least 40 years. They’d better get to work – and keep their hands off my Social Security.