are there any proposals to reduce SS benefits to the wealthy?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

25. Whoa...

That's less than the average benefit of $1,235 a month and simply terrible. The first Boomers turned 62 in 2008, so it's early days yet. I've known roofers whose hands were crippled from holding a hammer all day for 40+ years who didn't retire until age 65. Our system is so screwed up... As a nation we seem to have no respect for physical labor whatsoever.... While I believe education is important, what would we do as a nation if no one was willing to collect the garbage, or pave the roads, or fix our roofs, or do any of the hundreds of jobs that receive lousy wages and few or no benefits. We really need to rethink "fairness" in this country. My son, who is a tax attorney in Miami, became a tad indignant (until he thought about it) when I said to him "Every tax attorney in the city of Miami could decide to leave the city to set up practice elsewhere, and the city wouldn't even miss them. If no one was willing to collect the garbage in Miami, the city would become a dead zone within a year..."