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On 2025-06-06 22:07:31 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
Pearls Before Swine: Birthdays
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/06/06
Yup, everything after 21 sucks.
More like the lower teenage years, when you stop getting toys and >confectionery, and start getting boring socks and underwear instead.
;-)
Oh wait, 65 is Medicare.
67 is Social Security Full Retirement age for the tail end of the baby boomers.
In New Zealand you currently get the government pension, 'oldies'
discount card, etc. at age 65, but there is talk of raising the age
(like most countries it is costing too much with more and more older
people and living longer).
This is how Modern Medicine, with its Extended Life Span, circles back
and bites society in the a**.
More realistically, if people are healthy enough to work longer, they
probably should be doing so -- says someone whose 20th year of (very
early and entirely voluntary) retirement will come to a close at the
end of this July.
--
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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