John Kasich to seniors who want to keep their Social Security: “get over it”

[SheilaT]

57. I haven't a clue how many older voters will die off between now and election day,

and don't feel like googling it, but I'm sure putting in "How many people over the age of 65 die every day" will get you the answer.

Here's the thing: There are more than three as many people in this country between the ages of 18 and 44 as over age 65. And again, the old ones are dying off faster.

This is in the context of a thread about protecting Social Security, and the young voters need to understand how important it is to protect SS for them.

I'm 67, and when I was 25 there were people my age saying that SS wouldn't be there when we get old. I argued then, and I argue now that you absolutely cannot buy into that nonsense. Or, to put it another way, for at least half of the time SS has been with us, people have been working on convincing us that it's not here to stay. Or that it should be privatized because people could do better by investing in the stock market by themselves. Which anyone with a 401k knows isn't true.

The other thing people do not understand is that SS is a pay as you go scheme. The money any of us put into it is not our own personal amount, waiting to be returned to us, but has been used all along to pay benefits to those already collecting.

In any case, we cannot be underestimating the younger block of voters.