Social Security at 62 or 70/72?

Let's see: Life expectancy 76, at 62 (for ease of math) you get 1000/month; at 66 $1080, at 72 $1320. Therefore the choices are $168,000; $129,600; $63,360. Therefore, the difference between retirement at 62 and 72 is a gift to the government of $104,640... which, if they follow the Bush (Jr & Sr) model they will squander on WMD to kill third world women and children.
Look at the math ... strangely, heart attack or disability, may force retirement, but it would, in the long run, make you more money.
It certainly would have gotten you medical benefits -- and depending on your age at the time, you could have gone on disability... making a touch more .. plus medical coverage. Now you can turn your attention to the thing you wanted to do, but couldn't because you were a 9-5 slave.
Even if you retire at 70, they have stolen 62% of the retirement benefits you would have received had you retired at 62 and if you live to national average of 76. There are a host of secondary benefits which are not part of AARP calculators (any more than the lost income is included). The late retirement is as much, actually more, of a fraud as GW Bush's privatization idea was... it is a way for the Government to deny you the benefits you paid for -- which the GOP is now trying to find a way to steal from you.... all because they wanted to run up deficits (remember Reagan doubled the National Debt, Bush #1 was working toward doing it again, and Bush #2 actually did it -- yielding a national debt more than four times what it should have been had the GOP lived within its budgetary meant and just paid the interest/debt service like any responsible person is expected to do.)

The percentages used in the first paragraph are based on AARP calculations.  AARP provides a free Benefits Calculator, but it doesn’t take into account the reality of lost secondary benefits, or accumulated benefits.  In some states, the “income” determines a state subsidy for rent or property taxes – right there you can get the $80 difference between retirement at 62 and 66,  if you keep in mind your actual taxes might mean you get more than that difference.

Next, Medical care.  Remember, our GOP opposes life – they oppose government provided medical care of the type found in nations whose population outlives ours.

The reality is, for all their “pro-life” nonsense, the GOP is out to kill as many people as possible.   Even the core issue of the “pro-life agenda” is based on increasing the numbers killed – remember, if not for the Supreme Court, anti-abortion laws would include abortion that are done to save the live of the mother (usually because both mother and fetus [or child] will die before the fetus is viable, ie, tubular pregnancy).  Thus their real agenda is to terminate an adult and a fetus – not to ensure the life of the fetus.  Though they would allow the fetus to live, if it ensured the death of the mother – that is the pragmatic reality of the laws they promote.

Continuing with the “pro-life” example: Who is going to pay the medical bills for the fetus they did not want terminated?  Who will pay the medical costs for that child, and how will they get educated … remember, the GOP opposes paying for education and medical care.  If you put in a Bill to provide additional money for education or health assistance, the GOP will be the first, and loudest opponent. 

When have they ever, in recent history, advocated improving education in poor or rural communities?

When have they ever, in recent history, advocated improving medical care in poor or rural communities?

Identify any piece of GOP sponsored legislation WHICH WOULD HAVE DIVERTED MONEY FROM MILITARY KILLING MACHINES TO THE SUPPORT OF LIFE FOR THE LIVING.   Can’t be done – the GOP wants to kill people.  That is why push wanted to privatize Social Security – he knew the majority of Americans  would soon qualify, and if he could both privatize it and (while out-sourcing jobs, and so protecting the wealthy income streams) then causing the government to tank the markets, he could hurt the majority of Americans in one shot… with the next, or some subsequent, administration taking the blame.   To ensure the blame is passed to non-GOP administrations, the GOP is obstructionist with regard to anything that will benefit the people of this nation.

Look at Washington… show me where I’m wrong.  Show me a GOP Congressman who is actively working to help the average person, to put money in the hands of those who will spend it (the ultimate stimulus package) … those who are retired and and will be buying things to help their children, or put smiles on the faces of their grandchildren.  NO!  They are actively trying top take the disposable income out of the hands of that group --- to reduce them to marginal subsistence levels.

Marginal subsistence levels for any who are on, or are approaching, Social Security collection dates, is the perfect anti-stimulus program.  It achieves two goals, first it eliminates disposable income for those most likely to spend it, and second, it pushes more people to the levels at which they will qualify (and really need) welfare benefits.  Their goal is to suppress the economy while increasing costs to government.   That will ensure the collapse of the nation.

THE MOST HARM TO THE MOST PEOPLE

IT IS THE GOP WAY OF LIFE

Hey, Destroy America, Vote Republican

It’s less messy than bombs… and more permanent.

Gehenna transition progression.

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Date Line May 28, 2007

Building on the previous, we can ask: “If there is no Hell, why should we behave?”

A very simple, simplistic, thoughtless, question. It is the question used to justify evil. Curiously, it is the excuse for murder which underlies all Christian and Islamic doctrines of fundamentalist action.

Hell! It is that which damns all Christians and Islamists; it is what damns the rest of us to mindless conflicts such as the current one in Iraq. Hell, and its imaginary Lord, Satan, exist so they can justify evil.

Gehenna is the entrance; it has many names in many religions. But each of those religions has a common theme; each of them talks of peace, love, and doing no harm. Sounds Christian; but when did you ever hear of a Christian who followed the teachings of Christ?

Let us start with a basic: Church. Christ said you spoke to his father by going to a “closet”, a room, in your house and speaking privately. It was the hypocrites who made a public show of prayer.

Now that we know that, according to Christ, all those Church-going Christians can be seen as hypocrites, all the rest of their murderous deeds fall into place; all their bigotry, their racism, their witch trials, all these things fall into a consistency of actions.

Gehenna is the entrance, it is a mud-room, an entry hall; it is the place where the mud, dirt, or grim on ones outer clothing, the random filth of the journey, is removed before one enters the home of their host.

If we wish to use such analogies, we can see the soul as steel forged in the fire of life, having been poured from the crucible of creation. That steel, found worthy and pure, is then polished in Gehenna.

What of the impure? What of those which Christians say is eternally damned? What becomes of them?

Well, in our steel analogy the answer is easy: they get poured back into the crucible. They experience resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation; it matters little what name is placed on their return to this universe, return they do, and they continue to return until they are pure, until all the impurities are gone.

For those who want Hell. The answer is simple; this is Hell; we are there; we are in the crucible of our birth and shall remain there until we are worthy of being polished and presented at Court.

There is the image presented in scripture. There is the image of a Hell which comports well with the founding faith upon which it is based and to which it is responsible; it is the same faith to which Islam is also responsible.

Hold on!
That sounds Hindu; that sounds Buddhist, that sounds like many religions whose people revere peace and tranquility.

Yes it does. And so it should. It is the heart of all religions and all knowledge. We are eternal beings, a part of eternal existence, and we are all stuck with that reality. Their goal, is the universal goal.

One beginning, one end. If all is known, then where is the free-will? If all the steel is to, eventually, be used, what is the objective of life?

Their goal, our goal, is to exit the crucible. We want to graduate to the polishing room. We want to be something of beauty and utility. Do we care who we serve? Do you really need to place a name on that entity?

Think about it. The first enlightened religion pictured the creator in terms of a king, a pharaoh, in terms of a single elemental ruler whose name really didn’t matter.

“Who are you?” was the query.

“I am who I am,” was the response.

Give a name, any name, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Why does that work, why is it so universally accepted by so many when applied to a rose? And yet, why is it so devoutly rejected when applied to a deity, or a creator?
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