(Nov. 1, 2004) New research on anti aging means that baby boomers will live longer then government expectations and raising the age for social security will not help our nations citizens

The latest research on anti aging means people can live longer; much longer then historically has been the case. People who take advantage of anti aging products are going to be able to extend their life’s into the 80’s, 90’s and even well into the 100’s depending on how quickly they begin the process to slow aging.

Current research is only in the early stage however the findings are the same no matter who is doing the research. A few simple supplements can mean the difference between living to be 70 years old or much older or dying at the current mortality rate. Baby boomers are going to be able to make it into well into their 70’s and 80’s and many even older then that. Post baby boomers are going to be able to live well past 100 years old.

People in America are going to begin taking advantage of the new anti aging supplements that will slow the aging process. While many will take advantage of the anti aging supplements there will be many who will not. Many people will not take advantage of anti aging products due to various reasons. Some will not because of financial reasons and some due to their skepticism in the whole process. The poorer people in America will not be able to afford the $50 to $100’s or so it cost to take these supplements. Those people who do not take anti aging supplements will of course put money into the ailing social security system but will never live retire.

The government has no way of determining how many people will take advantage of anti aging products so as to extend their life spans. As many as 50% or more of the population could purportedly be among the many who decide they want to live longer. So, let’s say the government raises the minimum age to receive social security to 75 years old. The age that people die at before reaching that age will be much broader then those they die before retirement age now. However, the major portion of those people will be only those who have failed to take anti aging supplements.

Let’s make this perfectly clear. People who use anti aging supplements are the only ones who would even come close to receiving social security if all the government were to do is raise the age limit. And those people who do not take anti aging supplements will put money into a system they will in no way ever benefit from.

The only way the government can continue to have a social security system is to change the way it works. How people put money into their retirement and at what age they decide to draw from the retirement will be totally up to each individual. The old way of looking at social security will not work anymore. Raising the age for social security recipients is a thing of the past. Politicians over the next few years are going to have to look seriously into the process of allowing people to determine how they want to save for retirement.

There are too many variables in play now for politicians to assume all they have to do is to set some arbitrary number, as that is all it would be, as the age at which people can begin to receive social security. Unless the government can estimate how many people are buying anti aging supplements and taking advantage of all the information available that will extent their life’s and acting on them they can not set an age. They would also have to determine how many poor people and how many skeptics are left out of the loop and not going have their lives extended as much as possible. There are too many factors, too many variables, and too little information to predict possible outcomes.

Since during the election of 2004 social security was not a major issue, come the 2008 election campaign social security will be at the forefront of the election year. That is unless the administration of 2004-2008 along with the Congress and Senate act responsibly and revamp the social security system. Politicians who fail to make social security reform a priority over the next four years will have to answer to Americans come elections in 2006 and 2008.

Americans will be making a choice in their own lives whether they want to live longer or not and for some they will not get to make that choice since money will be an issue for them. For those that make the choice to extend their lives by using anti aging supplements they will be the beneficiaries of those they die at the current life expectancies. Those that do not use anti aging supplements for whatever reason will be the providers for future retirees in America.

Yes American’s will be choosing to live longer or die at an early age but politicians must face the biggest issue of fixing a social security system that can not survive no matter what. There will be those who want to take the easy route and raise the retirement age while trying to keep the population in the dark about what is really going on in America.

Intelligent politicians and those in the news that will educate Americans by letting them know that aging is an issue that has options should also let Americans know that social security needs to have options too. If people choose to live longer then they will need to prepare for retirement in new and creative ways and private investments should be one of those options. If people do not care to live longer by using anti aging supplements or can not afford to then one would expect that these people would understand that they will probably never see retirement not if social security continues as we know it today.

Again, while baby boomers can take steps now to extend their life’s and live past the current mortality rate and many will see their 100th birthday, post baby boomers have the greatest to gain and more of them will live to blow out the candles on their 100th birthday celebration then of any other generation. In fact, for post baby boomers as many as 50% or higher of people in these generations will be celebrating their 100th birthday.