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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Follies who wrote (119719)12/14/2011 11:13:31 AM
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"Raise social security retirement age consistent with lifespan?"

The claim that people are living to a higher average given age has a hint of statistical manipulation and political manipulation imo.

If you raise the retirement age, there will be many people who paid into the SS system that
will never live to retirement age-----even to lets say 65 or 70.

I have friends who died at these ages----------45, 49, 60, 58 and 60 -----they never reached
the current retirement ages. They never reaped the benefits of the payments they made into Social Security.

Then I have friends who were still living in their homes in their 80's -------now deceased-----and making it in their home and volunteering where they could. At one time this was the goal of this nation to keep seniors in their homes----no longer, they are being displaced. One went to the hospital for heart surgery and got an infection and died.

Then I have family of yore who lived to be 95, 90, 85, 86, 80 , 70------they were farmers and small business owners, machinists, hard working people. Few ever received social security.

As the family members hit their 70's and early 80's their health and stamina began to deteriorate making it impossible to do the modern day 8 hour a day job including commuting to do so.

Certainly after serving the nation in various capacities if you paid into Social Securtiy you should have the full benefits of your Social Security.

Within past two weeks I had a friend to call me in tears--------a neighbor, in his early 50's who worked for a high tech firm had suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack---leaving 3 children and a wife.

She was in tears not for him as much as for herself and her husband--------she told me she ask her husband what if we die-------. And she was appalled that one could die so young----------only old people die, of course not so.
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