Beck stated at the CPAC Conference (and I'm not sure where he got his numbers, but they sound right) that if SSI were age adjusted, men today wouldn't be eligible until age 75, and women wouldn't be eligible until 80.
Suck on that, DUmmies.
Age adjusted don't mean squat, with our fantastic medical advances people live longer but their body's are not able to function as well at 75 as it did at 30.
For those over the age of 65 that have worked all their lives at a non manual job they may be able to squeeze in another 5-8 years, even go to 70 with no problem.
For those of us who have had wear on our body's, lifting, pulling, standing for long hours, [Nursing is one profession that wears out both male and females bodys] Who wants to be in a hospital and have a 70 year old nurse come into the room with bad eyesite waving a catheter tube and try to find the place to install it, or take a blood sample from a vain they have to feel to find. Darn I would not want a 70 year old doctor.
Do we have to make time to retire depend on what work one has done.?
It is not our fault we now live longer, we get our vaccinations, antibiotics and surgery when needed. If one is to find fault with SS# then one must look at the fact that most of us over 55 would not be here were it not for medical care.
I myself have lived longer then both Grandfathers or their fathers. Woman did live longer way back when but that was before they had to work 3-4 jobs at once. Woman had one job in life, to take care of their husbands and kids, work within the comunity on volunteer projects, perhaps even get a part time job.
When WW2 came woman had to join the work force as their men were over seas. Woman found they could raise kids and build bombers at the same time.
When the war ended the government went on the propaganda war path that woman should give up their jobs so the returning men would have a job.
The government made it unfeminine and unfair for woman to keep a job that a returning serviceman needed to feed his family. Most every Hollywood movie and the new fangled TV programs showed the woman at home.
These returning men who had been gone in some cases 4+ years had huge health problems, as they do today.
Then when the 20 year old anniversary of the wars end came, we still had men and women doing the same job at different salary's. Woman began to go back into the work force and pay into SS#, this was never envisioned by the people that devised that plan.
How SS# can survive today with people living longer but unable to work as their body's just cannot function on the level of 40 years ago is anyones guess.
Nasty minded people believe that this National Health Care Bill is aimed at cutting down the number of elders that are retired. Admittedly there are people that want to depopulate the world, placing the retired into a system of who gets care first, a child or 60 year old man is not inconceivable. Triage they call it.
Rant ended
