From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dee Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: S.S. Article-I.D.: cca.4299 Posted: Wed Feb 2 14:03:45 1983 Received: Thu Feb 3 06:09:15 1983 References: watarts.1645 But "forced" retirement at 65 is going away and already has for Federal employees. The funny thing about SS is not that its a welfare system, we have many of those and they pay the currently needed from taxes on those currently not so needy, its that SS is such a system carefully designed to look like a pension system (where you finance your own benefits). Donald Eastlake (decvax!cca!dee)