[Vendome]

70 sounds about right.

[TexasFreeper2009]

It will also drive up unemployment permanently

[freedumb2003]

Post death.

[svcw]

Well, for me 61, that’s when I got laid off.....never to be hired again, apparently experience is not a job enhancer.

[dk88]

“Retirement” was a brief late-20th century phenomenon for a couple generations to take advantage of.

[Venturer]

Amen Brother, it will take the burden off youth and put it on the aged.
Work the old farts till they die.

/s/

[abb]

I guess they’ve given up trying to make those who won’t work, to take it up. Instead, their solution is to make those who will, work longer...

[Nowhere Man]

I know a 74 year old man who still has to work full time as an auto mechanic.

[Mamzelle]

From my observation of the families with the best hope of retirement are the families who avoided divorce.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If it was indexed back to the % of people who lived beyond the original retirement age from the 30s, it would now be about 75 or 76. And by the way, that would make the program solvent (assuming we get rid of Obama’s SSI give aways).

[Tenacious 1]

That will take the burdein off the youth.....

See the way this works is, we have to gamble on the amount of payers in the system that actually live long enough to collect.

In 2011 I attended 6 funerals. It was a tough year. I’m not that old. OF those 6 deaths, only 2 ever collected social security.

Ages:

81
66
63
59
38
45

If you had to try and sell this system to someone today that knew nothing of it and could only you one peice of paper and 90 seconds of explanation, you’d be accused of being selling snake oil.

PRIVATISE IT starting with those under 40 as an option.

[WVNan]

Well it won’t affect me any. I’ll be 79 in Dec. and still working with no end in sight. It’s good for you to keep working as long as possible. Keeps the old bones moving and the brain working. Besides you still enjoy living because you have a reason to get up in the morning. You don’t feel as if you have been sidelined as the world goes by.

[Kandy Atz]

Seems like a pretty good reason to privatize social insecurity and take the decision out of the hands of greedy government bureaucrats.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In case there are people who still have not figured it out, when the currency collapses, as is a mathematical certainty, all pensions go away, not to mention savings and investments.

The new world order is that you work until you croak.

[bmwcyle]

At the current rate of devaluation of the dollar, never.

[South Dakota]

I’m sixty. I have Wonka’s golden ticket in my pocket. A class A CDL with tanker endorsement .

Here on the Bakken, all shapes and sizes, young and old work. Prepare to be cold

[SamAdams76]

I never understood the whole "retirement" concept or why it is apparently so appealing to so many people, something that people actually appear to look forward to. Why is that? Why are people so eager to reach the end of their productive lives?

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Find something you really enjoy doing day in and day out because nobody is retiring.Ever.

[DBrow]

It used to be about 2 years beyond average life expectancy. I can remember it being common for folks retiring at 65 to pass on at 67, 68.

Once Obamacare or national Romneycare is in force, I expect life expectancy to creep downward, so setting retirement at 70 might save tons of money.

[Ted Grant]

It will have a pit stop at 70, before settling on 75.

That should cover our lifetimes.