https://www.statista.com/statistics/1361920/senators-age-share-us/
A third of the Senate is over 70, and another third are between 60 and 69…
Roughly 2/3s of the Senate is past the normal retirement age
Technically retirement age is 65 (might have moved to 67). But don’t worry, Republicans have proposed moving the retirement agree to 75. That’d really cut down on the senators past retirement age and they don’t even have to retire!
It’s got raised to 67 for OASDI already
But only if you were born after 1960, most of the boomers still get OASDI earlier.
Having a retirement age of 67 should be seen as a complete failure of our society. Boeing did a study that found if their employees retired at 55, then they collected retirement benefits on average for 25 years - dying at 80 years old.
However, those that retired at 65 only collected retirement benefits for
2 years18 months - dying at 67. Basically meaning that for every year you work past 55, you’re missing out on 2 years of retirement (working an extra year and also taking a year off your life).A retirement age of 67 is basically the same as having no retirement age at all. It’s just a “fuck you, work till you die.”
Couldn’t this just be an indirect way of saying people with more money live longer? Retiring at 55 means you’re pretty well off, retiring at 67 likely means you couldn’t afford to retire early. Less money means lower ability to afford healthy food and medical care.
Let’s just go ahead and dispense with this nonsense that healthy food is “expensive”. The produce section at the grocery store is incredibly inexpensive. You can get a whole single serving meal for $1-3.
this nonsense that healthy food is “expensive”
This can depend a lot on where you are. If it’s readily available to you, it means you live in a well-served community. Not all communities are well-served in this way- food deserts are a thing, you know
Well TIL then, thanks
Maybe it’s just my area (very high COL), but the produce section is actually really expensive. $1-3 is an insultingly wrong amount. It’s cheaper to get the absurdly priced pre-made salads from my local supermarket than it would be to buy the ingredients individually. Somehow Trader Joe’s actually has affordable pre-made salads that are way cheaper than individual ingredients.
Healthy food is expensive as fuck, in both money and time. Neither of which the working class has anymore.
It’s cheaper to get the absurdly priced pre-made salads from my local supermarket than it would be to buy the ingredients individually.
That makes zero sense. How is it possible that it’s cheaper to have someone assemble a salad than it is to just purchase the raw unprocessed ingredients?
Where do you live?
I mean, if they can somehow move retirement to 75, they’ll absolutely use that as a justification to kill social security.
Isn’t that like, longer than our average lifespan?
Pretty sure that’s like early 80s or maybe late late 70s. So you can have a few years to enjoy your retirement at least. What a deal, right?!
It’ll be nice to have time to enjoy my hobbies that I’m too rickety for and to spend time with my family that’s dead
That’s the point, you work and pay for a dream of not working and before you can collect you die.
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I hear Dianne Feinstein plays the love interest 🍿
Back in my day, there were no people over 80. They were all dead!
hmmmm
If we do an age limit it should be scientifically defined, something like the statistical average age at which mental decline due to old age has set in. Wording it like that will allow the exact age to be flexible with the times if say longevity increases or a generation is born into such harsh environmental conditions that it lowers the average cognitive ability at a younger age than expected.
Then we would work until we were demented. Great.
Mental decline due to old age presently begins to set in noticeably in the mid to late 60s.
Plus, it’s better than the present system where authority and paying jobs are held onto for dear life by zombified boomers out of what can only be assumed as sheer spite for the up and coming.
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I think just having a cutoff works better, otherwise the test will be constantly scrutinized and attacked and neutered by olds trying to break their way into holding onto power forever in spite of the greater good.
For every Bernie, we’ve got 5 Diannes
Edit: BY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE‽
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Don’t worry, if she can’t remember, someone else will tell her how to vote. It’s representational representational democracy.
Too be fair, she could have been all there mentally and died from something else. My Great-grandma was very sharp, and very aware when she passed at 82.
She could have been, but she wasnt. Her cognitive decline was well known and documented.
this is a good point. wtf do those staffers think they’re doing – helping her? carrying out the sacred traditions?
Staffers work for the person, not the office.
If your boss retires, you’re out of a job. Pretty sure Feinsteins top staffer is Pelosi’s niece (maybe daughter?) And I doubt she’d have trouble finding a job, but most have a financial incentive to keep their boss in office for as long as possible.
Direct incentive yes but it’s to the overall detriment to their position in life at this point. Aren’t Feinstein and Pelosi in solid blue districts? There’s little risk to “losing” the seat.
What?
If another person replaced a politician (even if it’s the same party) the staffers will likely all lose their jobs.
These aren’t merit based positions, they’re usually returns for “favors” so they’re attached to the person not office.
I hope it made more sense that time.
And I was adding the nuance that keeping the dinosaurs in office past there effectiveness is more likely a net loss in the end. They just can’t/won’t see past the immediate benefit of keeping a job.
Sir/Madam this is America. We do not consider anything past short term profit
Republicans have already made it clear that they won’t agree to seat Feinstein’s replacement on the judiciary committee. She can resign and be replaced by another Democrat in the Senate at large, but we will get absolutely zero new federal judges.
What fucking timing, rip in piss
I swear I had no idea!
This hurt.
You can’t vote for the first 18 years, why not do the same based on the average life expectancy? That would even add a incentive for older politicians to improve medical care for all!
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