Telephone poles for a living, can you see yourself doing this until you re 70 years old. i m sorry, you talking to me? oh, i m sorry. absolutely not. i m dead set against raising the age limit. there s a lot of people like myself doing heavy lifting type jocks, working outside, construction, you don t have an option of working longer. it s not in the cards for us because of the type of work we do. thomas, is this going to affect people like harry? are we just looking down the line at future generations? i think he raises an excellent point. there s going to be be certain circumstances that i think any social security reform package is going to have to address. i think labor policy, perhaps even disability benefit policy may well be a part of, therefore, social security
joining me is harry booth from florida. he s approaching retirement. also joining me, thomas terry with the american academy of actuaries. thanks to both of you. how are you doing? nine. great. thomas, i ll start with you. how will raising the social security age help america s financial crisis? as most americans know there s a long-term financial imbalance in the social security system. we have identified this as long as two decades ago. we have failed to act on it as of yet. people are working longer, as representative boehner just said. the imbalance between the payout period. we think the way to do it is by increasing the retirement age. on paper, i m sure it sounds good. in the mathematical part of it, but harry, someone like harry, who i understand climbs
abraham lincoln. here s part of what he wrote. he said we colored people have taken a vote and decided that we don t cotton to the whole emancipation thing. freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves and take consequences along with the rewards. that is just far too much to ask of us colored people and we demand that it stop. williams remained why he wrote the ert. what i did was successful. i m sorry i had to go to the lengths to slap sense into a lot of people who are so afraid of politically incorrect language that we can t get a conversation started. williams later took the letter down off his website. he defended it as satire. mark williams was booked as a guest tonight but he backed out after his expulsion. he said sorry, had to cancel. traveling plans changed last minute. he did post a response to the federation s decision today on his blog. it says in part the careless individual tea partier who assumed the mantel of leadership did so to turn a serio