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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 08:53:23 -0700
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On Sat, 11 May 2024 10:54:55 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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>
>On Fri, 10 May 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> On 5/10/2024 1:46 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> For those who are interested in the future long term financial
>>>> apocalypse of the USA
>>>=20
>>> More dystopian fiction.   Talk about depressing.
>>
>> Yup, just like reality.
>>
>> USA Social Security sent me a letter the other day and said that if I =
wait=20
>> until I am 67 to start taking SS, they will give me $4,000/month. That=
 is an=20
>> amazing number.  I am wondering that they are going to send a hit man=20
>> instead, much cheaper.
>>
>> Supposedly Social Security and Medicare are going to hit $2 trillion /=
 year=20
>> each in 2030.  That is an incredible amount of money.
>>
>> Lynn
>
>Amazing! My local SS-organization (pun intended) expect me to work until=
=20
>I'm 71! Hmm, or maybe it was 72, can't honestly say that I remember, and=
 I=20
>have absolutely no intention of following their guide lines. I do feel=20
>sorry for the generation after me, they will be the ones locked into =
life=20
>long slavery to the state.

You do realize that, when Social Security started, the average life
expectancy was such that those eligible for it were "locked into life
long slavery to the state", right?

Increased longevity is one of the reasons for the problem.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"