- Sep 19, 2011
- 28,549
- 10,097
- 900
Is 60 the New 40?
"Elderly."
Most of us hear the word and think of our parents in wheelchairs," said Marcella Lorfing, who teaches a memoir writing workshop at the Davis Art Center in California. "Now that was elderly."
After a recent Sacramento Bee story described a 60-year-old woman as elderly, one 60-year-old reader called to complain. "What's up with you guys," she asked, "don't you know that's just plain wrong?"
And the statistics, not to mention a cultural shift in attitude in how aging is viewed, back her up.
Those in the 60-and-older crowd are living longer and healthier lives than their parents by adhering to today's doctrines of diet and keeping the mind and body active.
So what is the new elderly?
The consensus seems to be that 60 is the new 40. Or at least a 40 with far different pressures and responsibilities. If not retired, then working with less pressure. The kids are grown and gone. And there's just more time to do fun stuff.
Is 60 the New 40 - Chicago Tribune
OK for those pointy small brained... here is the point!
RAISE Social Security RETIREMENT AGE from 65 to 69 for all those people UNDER 55! GET IT???
See you ignorant liberal/progressive democrats totally forget that SS was started at the time extremely few people lived past age 65!
So SS was betting that MOST workers paying into SS would never use it!
Great CON wasn't it???
BUT we are living longer and we are using up SS faster...
Simply raising the age for ALL workers NOW that are under 55 will save SS extinction by several decades.
As it is now SS trustees projects the demise by 2030!
From the Social Security TRUSTEES.
Social Security and Medicare together accounted for 41 percent of Federal expenditures in fiscal year 2013.
[Note for you ignorami, this means the GENERAL FUND of Federal government spends 41% on SS & Medicare.]
Both programs will experience cost growth substantially in excess of GDP growth through the mid-2030s due to rapid population aging caused by the large baby-boom generation entering retirement and lower-birth-rate generations entering employment and, in the case of Medicare, to growth in expenditures per beneficiary exceeding growth in per capita GDP.
Trustees Report Summary
"Elderly."
Most of us hear the word and think of our parents in wheelchairs," said Marcella Lorfing, who teaches a memoir writing workshop at the Davis Art Center in California. "Now that was elderly."
After a recent Sacramento Bee story described a 60-year-old woman as elderly, one 60-year-old reader called to complain. "What's up with you guys," she asked, "don't you know that's just plain wrong?"
And the statistics, not to mention a cultural shift in attitude in how aging is viewed, back her up.
Those in the 60-and-older crowd are living longer and healthier lives than their parents by adhering to today's doctrines of diet and keeping the mind and body active.
So what is the new elderly?
The consensus seems to be that 60 is the new 40. Or at least a 40 with far different pressures and responsibilities. If not retired, then working with less pressure. The kids are grown and gone. And there's just more time to do fun stuff.
Is 60 the New 40 - Chicago Tribune
OK for those pointy small brained... here is the point!
RAISE Social Security RETIREMENT AGE from 65 to 69 for all those people UNDER 55! GET IT???
See you ignorant liberal/progressive democrats totally forget that SS was started at the time extremely few people lived past age 65!
So SS was betting that MOST workers paying into SS would never use it!
Great CON wasn't it???
BUT we are living longer and we are using up SS faster...
Simply raising the age for ALL workers NOW that are under 55 will save SS extinction by several decades.
As it is now SS trustees projects the demise by 2030!
From the Social Security TRUSTEES.
Social Security and Medicare together accounted for 41 percent of Federal expenditures in fiscal year 2013.
[Note for you ignorami, this means the GENERAL FUND of Federal government spends 41% on SS & Medicare.]
Both programs will experience cost growth substantially in excess of GDP growth through the mid-2030s due to rapid population aging caused by the large baby-boom generation entering retirement and lower-birth-rate generations entering employment and, in the case of Medicare, to growth in expenditures per beneficiary exceeding growth in per capita GDP.
Trustees Report Summary
Last edited: