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Where did the idea of retiring at age 62 and living off the gov come from
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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2054073" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>Yep. A dramatic improvement of infant mortality rates has allowed a lot more people to survive childhood and adolescence in order to reach the age of 65.</p><p></p><p>What's important to understand though is that a man who reached the age of 65 in 1940 could expect to live another 12.7 years.</p><p>A man who reached the age of 65 in 1990 could expect to live another 15.3 years.</p><p>So, a 65 year old senior as of 1990 had a life expectancy that is a mere 2.6 years longer than in 1940.</p><p></p><p>When someone tries to tell me that SS needs to be cut because we are all living a lot longer I know that they are either:</p><p>1. Knowingly citing a misleading statistic to fool me into giving up my rights to my SS benefits</p><p>OR</p><p>2. They have already been fooled by the group in category 1 above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2054073, member: 3371"] Yep. A dramatic improvement of infant mortality rates has allowed a lot more people to survive childhood and adolescence in order to reach the age of 65. What's important to understand though is that a man who reached the age of 65 in 1940 could expect to live another 12.7 years. A man who reached the age of 65 in 1990 could expect to live another 15.3 years. So, a 65 year old senior as of 1990 had a life expectancy that is a mere 2.6 years longer than in 1940. When someone tries to tell me that SS needs to be cut because we are all living a lot longer I know that they are either: 1. Knowingly citing a misleading statistic to fool me into giving up my rights to my SS benefits OR 2. They have already been fooled by the group in category 1 above. [/QUOTE]
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