Reply #8: People with hard, dirty jobs aren't going to "live longer" [View All]

[mikehiggins]

If I sat behind a desk in the Beltway and had to worry about going to the gym to keep in shape, another three or four years of work might not have too deleterious an effect on me.

However, since I'm a construction worker, those extra few years might well kill me. I'm sure there are a lot of people in the same boat as me so this discussion of postponing retirement is not at all an academic one for us.

We should be lowering the retirement age, and if the Feds didn't use the SocSec funding to run the government, that might just be possible.