Martin O'Malley

You mean - help me . . . I'm new to the world.

Expanding Social Security for our older Americans who can't get by is like -


NOT a "turd" way idea?

Who'da thunk it.

I need to get out more.

Pssstttt - a quick DU search of my user name and SS will yield all kinds of commentary over the years about how the simple act of taxing my full salary for SSI would give a tremendous boost to the fund while also allowing an expansion to who is eligible (age limits being lowered) and an increase in the benes. This is also a woman's issue - SS is when Ledbetter figured out how seriously she had been hosed. Think of this - at the peak of my mom's career she was a hotel management VP with close to 30 hotels under her region. At her peak in the 90's - she made about 60% of what I make now. She was born in 1947. Our baby boomers had the game's rules changed half way through. Our boomer and older women . . . They never had the full set of rules in the first place.

So yes - the burden for righting those two wrongs falls on Gen X and the millenials. I refuse to live in a country where older people eat cat food. I refuse.