Well…have been reading a lot about the proposals that have been floated over the past few years about how to “save” social security since it is not going to be too long before I’m going to be that age…so, it has a real meaning to me. One of the things that the repubs are lying about again is the need to raise the retirement age since people are living longer…and, as always, they are just bad at math or are deliberately misleading people about the changes in life expectancy…which one do you think? I’ll go for the deliberate lies…I will admit that life expectancy has risen over the past 50 years, but you have to look into the numbers to see why…and the major reason is that less children are dying young from preventable diseases so the average goes up…not hard math to understand but it appears they don’t understand it. But, the second part of this puzzle is that the people that are living longer are concentrated in the upper classes…people who have had easier lives and good health care their entire lives…these people actually do live longer, but those that have done physical labor their entire lives don’t…so, raising the retirement age for these folks puts them at an age where they will probably die within a few years of retiring…just what the repubs have said jokingly is the solution to SS’s problems…don’t let them get away with this lie…geez…