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Given the lifespans at the time Social Security was enacted, it's amazing it got passed at all.

"Wait a minute. We're in the middle of a depression, and you want us to contribute a percentage of our salaries all our working lives so we can collect at age 65. When our average life expectancy is only 59.9 (for males in 1935)?"

No wonder it ran a booming surplus.

 

Did they rob the local 6-under T-ball team to get those?

 

That number factored in a much larger rate of infant mortality as well as accidents and illness early in life.

I can't find the exact numbers right now, but once a person reached Social Security age, he was likely to live for a while. Just not till 80 or 90 or beyond as is so often the case today.

It was pretty spot-on at the time of passage IMO. It has gotten outdated, though.

 

The American political spectrum used to be a lot more liberal. Conservatism meant slightly less government, not fuck-off anarchic plutocracy.

 

Don't bring a ball bat to a gunfight.

 

Are you ok with these programs being cut or eliminated? You've invested in them. Paid your taxes.

 

I don't want my children in any classroom with a bat that's not Bbcor Certified.

 

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I think I'm rare in this regard, but I've been at least giving weight to the doomsday predictions for as long as I've been in the workforce, and yeah I'm OK if my benefits are reduced. I'm 46 and I have almost 20 years to adjust to that.

 

No, I haven't. No one has.

 

So now the only republican running for Ryan's seat is Nehlen, the raving racist. Trumpists used to mock people for talking about this guy, claiming it was meaningless chatter. Now what? Will they support him?

 

There's a local elected official, a woman, who's making noise about getting in now that Ryan's out. I'm betting Ryan's big money boys are burning her phone lines right now pledging to make it rain for her.