Reply #8: Hmmm, that's not what I understood Thomas to mean... [View All]

[hunteky]

The operative sentence was "To simply raise the age and
find out that you've got gender, race and occupational
problems later, I would not be doing the kind of service that
I think I have to do."

I believe he means arbitrarily raising SS's full benefit age
in order to "strengthen" it, society might be
denying certain groups their full benefits. 

For example, if men, on average live to 72 and women to 76,
then raising the SS retirement age to 74 will have a disparate
impact on men vs women.

Thomas is telling us that we must be aware of such impacts,
not that we should accept them.