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Retirement age 'will rise to 85'
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| Last Updated: Friday, 17 February 2006, 23:57 GMT
| Paul Rincon, BBC News science reporter, St Louis
Posted on 02/18/2006 7:25:29 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative
"It might be possible to go through two mortgages, for example, or even have 50-year or 75-year mortgages," Dr Tuljapurkar explained.You first, doc.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:30:17 AM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Support the fence....grow a Victory Garden!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Along with timeframes until things lapse into the public domain, they just keep moving the goalpost, don't they?
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:31:55 AM PST
by
weegee
("...the left can only take power through deception" -W. Chambers, former mem of Communist Party USA)
To: Paleo Conservative
[But an increase in the retirement age to 85 would bring costs down to today's levels.]
This may be the liberal politician's plan, a return to the good old days of despotism. I thought they planned to just assassinate older people for the good of all after they reached old age. Oh, all the joys of athiest secular humanism.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:33:05 AM PST
by
ohhhh
( I pray the public school system collapses for the good of the children.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Ordinarily I'd be apprehensive about working to 85, as this could be interpreted as a transparent attempt by the Federal government to delay the bankruptcy of the SSA.
However, just think of the millions of Generation Xers that will have to toil for an additional 20 or 25 years under the baby boomers. They will go absolutely bonkers.
To: Paleo Conservative
A 75 year mortgage? He must be building an alabastor castle with gold faucets and Italian marble toilets.
For $2,000 you can build a fine 8 x 10 shack. As you save more money, add onto it. In 5 years you'll have 40 x 50 shack. No mortgage necessary.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:36:39 AM PST
by
sergeantdave
(And on the second day The Lord created February - the slowest month of the year.)
To: Paleo Conservative
In the immortal words of The Who:
"hope I die before I get old.."I guess the Social Security Administration hopes the same thing.
To: Paleo Conservative
Great, we'll have Alzheimer's victims still working at their jobs.
The pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction. In the not-so-distant past we had child labor abuses, in the future we'll have bosses standing over grannie with a riding whip.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:37:27 AM PST
by
Darnright
(Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
I'm going bonkers right now @_@
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:38:54 AM PST
by
ECM
To: ohhhh
To: Paleo Conservative
In the US the cost of social security and medical care would almost double if people retired at 65I retired when I was 46 and not being able to immediately start collecting S.S. & Medicare was not an incentive to continue working.
Anyway, I'd love to see both of those programs fall flat on their a$$es and die.
To: ohhhh
This may be the liberal politician's plan, a return to the good old days of despotism. I thought they planned to just assassinate older people for the good of all after they reached old age. Oh, all the joys of athiest secular humanism.
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Actaully, the first place I read that sentiment was here, and it is frequently repeated by young freepers.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:39:37 AM PST
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
"
They will go absolutely bonkers."
They will get just what they voted for, and my ashes will be laughing at them.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:39:50 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: sergeantdave
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:40:16 AM PST
by
Darnright
(Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
To: Darnright
Great, we'll have Alzheimer's victims still working at their jobs.WOO HOO!
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:41:06 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(We don't want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless)
To: Paleo Conservative
They told me my life expentancy was determined by my genes, and the longer my parents lived the longer I would live. What they didn't tell me was how expensive it was going to be keeping my parents on life support till they were 110.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:42:22 AM PST
by
Casloy
To: Paleo Conservative
I think a more reasonable goal is 70, especially since with modern medicine and today's far better understanding of how to maintain good health with a decent diet, good exercise and avoiding overindulgence of alcohol and less people smoking will allow people to live far longer than before.
To: RayChuang88
"maintain good health with a decent diet, good exercise and avoiding overindulgence of alcohol and less people smoking will allow people to live far longer than before."
If I promise to continue to eat fatty foods and booze it up, could I be allowed to retire early?
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:44:53 AM PST
by
frankjr
To: Paleo Conservative
But an increase in the retirement age to 85 would bring costs down to today's levels.Socialist-speak for WE NEED MORE DEAD AMERICANS.
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:45:15 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: sergeantdave
"For $2,000 you can build a fine 8 x 10 shack. As you save more money, add onto it. In 5 years you'll have 40 x 50 shack. No mortgage necessary."
I think you and I have obviously lived "in the field" for longer periods of time than most, LOL! It does tend to affect one's thinking about what "housing" truly is. ;)
Very good advice. One can NEVER go wrong, living below their means. :)
Gawd! The thought of working until I'm 85 just astounds me. I learned a long time ago that more "stuff" needs more "money" and more "work" to support it. Forget that nonsense!
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posted on
02/18/2006 7:47:00 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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