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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/2/2008
The Joys Of Modern Retirement
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Saletan makes an obvious, unsettling point: As the latest Reuters report notes, over the last four decades, U.S. life expectancy has climbed from 70.8 to 77.8 years. By 2015, it's on track to hit 79.2 years. Meanwhile, unlike other industrialized democracies, the United States has replaced ...

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The best arguments for Social Security
Newshoggers.com — ... (via Andrew Sullivan) inadvertantly makes two very strong arguments for Social Security as a means of multiple risk spreading across the entire population and thus the entire risk pool: ...

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