DEAN BAKER, PROSPECT - Chris Farrell demonstrated the incredible contempt with which the elites view the American public in his comments on Market Place this morning. He assured us that "everyone" agrees on what a solution to the Social Security solvency problem looks like.
At the top of his list was raising the retirement age. All the polls that I have seen show that large majorities of the public (more than 60 percent) strongly oppose raising the retirement age beyond 67 (the age reached in 2022 in current law). This leaves one wondering who is the "everyone" in Mr. Farrell's world spread so much ill-founded fear about its future. . .
Maybe one day, the vast majority of the public, who strongly support Social Security, will get to be somebody on Market Place Radio.
http://www.prospect.org/deanbaker/
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