Social Security & Medicare

All I'm advocating is that those who do the most physically stressful work should be allowed full benefits at 65, as it was for years, and that we pay for that by not allowing full benefits for those who do not have physically demanding jobs, who can do them for more years. As we transistion to a society where the burdens of work get lighter because of technology, we naturally raise the retirement age.

We don't live in the world of 1935 when the Social Security rules were first put in place, we live in a place where people live longer and more productive lives, where backbreaking labor is the exception rather than the norm. Shouldn't our policies for retirement plans reflect that just a little bit?