"Ignoramus17685" wrote in message
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but it will increase social security costs and the cost of providing
other services (medical etc) to *people* who live a long time instead of
promptly dying around retirement time. Without considering it, it is a
flawed calculation.

i

Have they checked your blood for chunks of ice floating in it? (That's a
very cold blooded assessment.) Do you plan on "promptly dying" at that
time? These are real *people* being discussed and not just statistics.
There is no reason to think that they don't deserve to live long and healthy
lives just like you do and I do. There are more important things in life
than just money, even for the government. I'd rather see my tax dollars
spent on keeping someone's great grandma healthy than bombing the sh!t out
of some village on the other side of the world. If they'd only stay on
their side of the world ;-)

Tonia