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To: Lane3 who wrote (6140)1/14/2017 1:28:14 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 364388
 
>>What he didn't anticipate was that people would live so long. At the time of enactment, people typically lived barely pas

Right, or that it would become so politically difficult to fix. The program could have been indexed to life expectancy and essentially the problem would be solved. I'm sure no one saw that coming, but by the time of the early 80s patch people could see that, but the golden target of 65 was etched in a lot of minds.