Alan Simpson

By Alan Nasser | CounterPunch | November 4, 2016 In the recent Wikileaks revelations confirming Hillary Clinton’s duplicity, one of the clearest disclosures of her policy plans concerns her intention regarding Social Security. She stated that she would return to the position of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, charged with producing recommendations […]

Hillary Clinton explains her Social Security ideas to the Politics and Eggs Event in New Hampshire (source) by Gaius PubliusSure seems like it, but judge for yourself. Watch the above video starting at about 28:50 (if all is well in HTML land, I've queued it up for you). In case you haven't thought it through, raising the retirement age is a benefit cut. There's no other way to say it. From a transcript (paragraphing and emphasis mine):