On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 12:25:44 PM UTC-4, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"amdx" wrote in message
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On 3/18/2015 8:50 AM, wrote:
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:08:54 AM UTC-4, F. George
McDuffee wrote:

Elimination of the 6.5 million+ "zombies" still collecting
social security [how many voted?] would more than pay for
this. Average SS check is around 1,300$/month or about
15,600$/year or at least 101+ billion$/yr in total.

You do realize that that 6.5 million aged 112 years old collecting
SS benefits is a bogus number. The SSBN web site says the oldest
collecting SS benefits is 109 years old.

Yes, note, I said "The United States has 6,500,000 'active'
Social Security numbers for people that have reached that age."

Meaning people are using the numbers to get jobs or prosibly to
get benefits, and most likely paying money into SS, on a dead
persons account.

Do you have an authoritative source for that number?

That's very responsible of you Jim, to ask about reliable sourcing.

But as usual in most rightist forums like this, authority and other leading points of reference seemed to be viewed negatively and hurriedly skipped in favor of fantasy, school yard polemic, pat-on-the-back tradition and encouragement and invective.

I suspect that the people in the math related newsgroup might have wanted more of a challenge than to just have answered the original poster's question on the presented merits... hence the response (or lack thereof...)