[quote=SK in CV]You totally missed my point. Total life expectancy is immaterial. Life expectancy at retirement age is what’s important. I think that number is 7 years higher now than it was when SS started.[/quote]Data?
Here’s the full retirement age for SS: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/retire2/agereduction.htm. Are you saying your generation total life expectancy is only a few months to <2 years higher than your parents', since according to SS's full retirement age, that's how much older you'd have to be to reach full retirement age. Yet, over the last 50 years, life expectance have gone up 9 years. But that's really besides the point. What I'm trying to tell BG is, stop complaining about her parents' generation being a drain on SS, but fail to see her generation is doing the same thing.