Social Security Has Been Slashed Before Our Eyes For Decades And Voters Barely Notice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Congress also needs to add more revenue to the system so Social Security can pay full benefits by 2035.
56% : In their calculations, by age 67, the average full-time worker needs 11 times their average pay to supplement Social Security to maintain their preretirement standard of living in retirement.
55% : Mark Miller, in his Retirement Revised blog, describes the Center for Retirement Research's findings that average earners retiring at age 65 would have received 41 percent of their preretirement earnings from Social Security in 1995, after considering taxes and Medicare Part B premiums, but would replace only 29 percent of their income in 2035.
55% : Social Security is not enough to live on so we must make efficient and fair savings vehicles accessible to all workers, not just those who are lucky enough to work at jobs offering retirement benefits.
55% : Ironically, in spite of its popularity -- 8.3% of Democrats, 73% of independents, and 73% of Republicans want to strengthen Social Security and pay for it by making the wealthy contribute their fair share -- Social Security is still whim to changes in political party where some leaders want to cut it.
53% : I find it remarkable that Social Security is not the front and center issue in the midterm elections.
53% : Nancy Altman, member of the technical Social Security Advisory Council, has been warning about backroom conversations among Republicans to trim Social Security if they have political power.
46% : Social Security was never designed to replace 100 percent of preretirement income, but it replaced a lot.
44% :Social Security has been slashed before our eyes for decades and voters have not noticed.
42% : Key Republicans say they will cut Social Security and Medicare if their party gains power.
40% : Limiting Social Security when retirement income security is so fragile seems as if it would be a singularly unpopular position, but it is hardly discussed in the nations' campaigns.

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