The world according to GOP House Minority Leader and Leading Suntan Expert John Boehner:
Change Social Security retirement age and use Social Security funds to pay for war in Afghanistan - an interesting priority choice.
Although everyone pays into Social Security,
the government will decide who receives it.
If you've planned well for yourself and saved on your own, you lose.
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Boehner had praise, however, for Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan and stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan. He declined to list any benchmarks he has for measuring progress in the nine-year war, at a time of increasing violence and Obama's replacement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus.
Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation and limiting payments to those who need them.
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