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Old 05-08-2014, 07:27 AM
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The reason Social Security is in need of fine tuning is that people are living longer than ever before. True, obesity may affect this longevity in the future, but right now people are living longer. Modern medicine, often criticized, has done wonders for eradicating or ameliorating many of the diseases that killed people in their youth as well as in their forties and fifties back in "the good old days."