Well isn't this something...Paul Ryan paid for a big share of his

[INdemo]

college education with Social Security benifits..and now Ryan wants to destroy those benefits..What a hypocrite



Ryan attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville and was sixteen years old when he found his father in bed, dead of a heart attack at age 55. Ryan's grandfather had also died of a heart attack at age 57, as had his great-grandfather also similarly died of a heart attack at age 59.<10> Ryan began collecting his Social Security survivor's benefits until age eighteen, which he saved for college tuition and expenses.<11>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/20/paul-ryan-already-benefitted-from-the-social-security-fund-he-now-wants-to-gut/

[tularetom]

1. And how old is Ryan right now?

Maybe he won't be around long enough to fuck up SS. There seems to be a family history.

[WhiteTara]

8. He doesn't look to be in his 50s yet. n/t

[starroute]

10. Ryan was born in 1970

So by and yardstick, we're stuck with him for now.

[notadmblnd]

2. That is special

Especially since I received a letter from SS when my son turned 18. It told me that if I had any money saved or unspent for my son, that I had to return it to Social Security. It didn't say that it could be spent for college instead.

[Cool Logic]

3. Neither his father or grandfather lived long enough to collect SS...

And the history of heart attacks in his bloodline might indicate that Ryan received all of his SS benefits during his college years.

Come to think of it, SS was supposed to work that way. For when it was initiated in the 1935, life expectancy was 58 for men and 62 for women, which meant that the majority of Americans would never recieve their Social Security benefits.

[starroute]

9. Those low figures were life expectancy at birth

But that was an era when there was still no vaccination against childhood diseases, which brought down the averages. If you survived long enough to enter the work force, and were healthy enough to work, your life expectancy was considerably better.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html

Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood.

As Table 1 shows, the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65, and those who did live to 65 could look forward to collecting benefits for many years into the future. So we can observe that for men, for example, almost 54% of the them could expect to live to age 65 if they survived to age 21, and men who attained age 65 could expect to collect Social Security benefits for almost 13 years (and the numbers are even higher for women).

Also, it should be noted that there were already 7.8 million Americans age 65 or older in 1935 (cf. Table 2), so there was a large and growing population of people who could receive Social Security. Indeed, the actuarial estimates used by the Committee on Economic Security (CES) in designing the Social Security program projected that there would be 8.3 million Americans age 65 or older by 1940 (when monthly benefits started). So Social Security was not designed in such a way that few people would collect the benefits.

As Table 1 indicates, the average life expectancy at age 65 (i.e., the number of years a person could be expected to receive unreduced Social Security retirement benefits) has increased a modest 5 years (on average) since 1940. So, for example, men attaining 65 in 1990 can expect to live for 15.3 years compared to 12.7 years for men attaining 65 back in 1940.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R #7 n/t

[Yon_Yonson]

5. The NEOCON SLUG was born Paul January 29, 1970

which makes him almost 42 and he has plenty of time to fuck us all!

[INdemo]

7. Does the Democratic challenger have a chance of

defeating this guy with the millions of corporate money Ryan has?

[Yon_Yonson]

11. The scuttlebutt is that ROB ZERBAN has but I am bitting my lower lip in doubt

He is not well known and it's his first bid for public office.

[rustydog]

6. Typical Republican: I got mine...fuck you.