Retiring at 85
by Jeff Davis
For decades Social Security was working fine. Then, our politicians decided to flood America with Third World immigrants. The massive flood of illegal aliens and their children has bankrupted hospitals and school districts in border states in recent years. After four decades of massive illegal immigration, it looks as though Social Security will go bankrupt. Instead of spotting a connection between these two events, our politicians want to keep the borders poorly guarded and to solve the Social Security problem by working “legal” Americans to death.
There are other factors contributing to the Social Security crisis. Traitorous politicians from the Bush and Clinton crime families have outsourced millions of good-paying jobs, which used to pay into Social Security. Thanks to a string of needless wars, hundreds of billions of dollars have been squandered fighting wars to enrich Halliburton or to soothe the paranoia of Israel. Thanks to George W. Bush and his neocon handlers, the National Debt has soared to nine trillion dollars. Most Americans continue to ignore this gigantic problem. It seems only the collapse of the economy will get their attention.
All this means that Social Security will be severely impacted. The government can “fix” the present mess by drastically cutting benefits or raising the full retirement age, which used to be 65 but is now 67. In what may be some kind of neocon trial balloon, a US biologist has said that the age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy.
Recent studies claim that life expectancies may be significantly increased so that a large number of people will be living past 100. This seems optimistic at best and apparently takes no account of the fact that America’s health services are being strained to the breaking point by millions of non-paying illegal aliens. Many HMOs are collapsing into squalor and incompetence through the employment of massive numbers of Third World doctors and nurses. True, the very wealthy who can afford to get top-notch health care will live longer, but the average person’s life span may well decrease.
Is the solution to Social Security really to make the poor old folks keep on working until they’re 85? What kind of quality work, really, can someone in their 80s do? Okay, depending on the job and the individual, yes, there would be some competent octogenarians. But given their health problems (and we still don’t have single-payer health system in this country) and all of the other difficulties associated with human beings getting that old, do we really want an 80 year-old bus driver taking us to work in the morning, working on the jet airliner engine of the plane we’ll be flying in or processing seriously necessary paperwork?
Frankly, this sounds like someone up top is contemplating solving the impending Social Security crisis through simply eliminating the whole concept of retirement. Instead of letting the elderly have a few years of retirement to enjoy while they’re still healthy enough, they’ll literally work to death 80 percent of the population. Only the rich will enjoy retirement. A few working class people may make it to 85, where they’ll go straight to an old folks home to roll around in a wheel chair until they die. Ordinary Americans need to do something about immigration policies and the extreme corruption of the two party system. If they don’t get involved in politics, then they shouldn’t be surprised if they find themselves still working behind the counter of a 7-11 at age 84 selling cigarettes to illegal aliens.