Bernie Sanders

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54. If you start work out of high school, it's 52 or 53 years before you can retire at 70--if you live

Sat Sep 26, 2015, 07:35 AM

Sep 2015

to retire. The ultimate goal is to eliminate OASDI--all of it The penultimate goal is to try to make sure people die before they collect. That's what they keep telling us was the original intent, which is bullshit.

They tell us the life expectancy in the 1930s was 65. I've never bothered to try to check. However, that was a mathematical average, including both those who lived to be over 100 and those who died moments after birth and everything in between. No one thought that everyone was going to expire promptly at age 65 or earlier and never collect retirement benefits. That is just one more piece of bullshit we've been raised on. Time for a change of diet!

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There it is...welcome to my world! haikugal Sep 2015 #1

Isn't that great? Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #2

If you start work out of high school, it's 52 or 53 years before you can retire at 70--if you live merrily Sep 2015 #54

my mom and dad died young from the exertions of their life raising roguevalley Sep 2015 #36

I have similar stories...We share our blue collar background and my folks each died at 60 haikugal Sep 2015 #39

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