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**anon** · November 19th, 2008, 08:44 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

In article
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wrote:

I agree with all that -- I said nothing about Medicare or tossing
people aside, only that societies can't afford to have 1/3 of the
productive populace not being productive

Where the heck do you people get that any large population of retirees
are spending the last 1/3 of their life on medicare?!?!? Medicare
starts at age 65, the last 1/3rd of their life would have them live to
98.3 years old. The vast majority of people die in their 70's and 80's
(of those that get to age 65). It is a incredibly small number of
people who live till 98 or older