They Lie
But are too ignorant to know they are lying.
I was getting ready to unload on this “maroon” on MSNBC, but Digby has already called him on his “bullshit”.
First off some actual facts about US life expectancy from the Census Bureau:
Year Age: 60 [white male]
1890 14.73
1900 14.35
1910 13.98
1920 15.25
1930 14.72
1940 15.05
1950 15.76
1960 16.01
1970 16.07
1980 17.56
1990 18.70
2000 20.00
In 1890 if you reached 60 years of age you could expect to live almost another 15 years. In 2000, a 60-year-old can expect to live to 80. The big jumps the ‘maroons’ keep using are for new-borns. The life expectancy of 60-year-olds is the controlling factor, because that’s the group that will be collecting Social Security and Medicare, after paying for it for more than four decades.
These people act as if the Greenspan Commission that issued its report in 1983 and resulted in the doubling of FICA taxes, didn’t exist. Since that doubling, people, including Boomers, having been paying for those already in the system, and for their entry. The only “problem” with Social Security is that the deadbeat Republicans don’t want to pay back all of the money they “borrowed” from the trust fund.
The truth is simple: Republicans are a bad credit risk. They don’t want to pay their bills.
