Fuck you to those who say Medicare age eligibility needs to be changed upward.

[Warpy]

4. I notice only highly paid men who sit at desks are supporting it

especially if they're old and in elective office and don't feel much like retiring, themselves.

I wish we could send all of them out to do about 6 months of hard physical labor and then see what they say about it.

People who do physical work largely can't do it any more after their mid to late 50s because their bodies can't stand it. This is what the "raise the age" doughboys don't understand.

What the really need to do in this period of high unemployment is lower it, not raise it. Lowering it to 55 with half benefits then would be great for a lot of people who have been thrown out of work by corporations or whose bodies can't handle full time physical labor. Such people would be able to eke out early retirement with part time work.

Benefits should rise to full at 65, the present system of keeping them at a lower point forever doesn't work, either.