[GOPJ]

My point was that if blacks and whites ACT the same they have very similar health and life expectancy outcomes. Surely you don't want to reward bad choices... right?

[Nonstatist]

My point was that if blacks and whites ACT the same they have very similar health and life expectancy outcomes

Not necessarily and besides that, it's irrelevant. SS is a supplementary retirement fund "ostensibly" based on sound actuary tables, but excluding factors like health habits, where you live, genetic predispositions and so on.

All I'm saying is that Blacks will be fundamentally and stubbornly opposed to raising the payout age based on part on current, actuarily confirmed , life expectancies.

In fact, if men were organized by gender like women are (women live on avg 5-6 yrs longer), they also would be adamantly opposed to raising the payout age as well, given that its mostly old, white women who draw benefits, and do it for years and years , while many of them barely paricipated in the for-pay work force at all! Now that is unfair.

[DallasDeb]

Blacks have a GENETIC disposition to heart/circulatory problems, having nothing to do with lifestyle. However, lifestyle can make it worse.