The Big Fat Solution to Social Security Problem

One of the problems with social security is that over the past 200 years or so Americans have been progressively adding years on to their lives. This had a lot to do with better health care, medicines and regular exercise. So as you live longer you collect longer, which is part of the problem.

Now we come to find out that about 2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese. Add to that a lack of available health care, high costs of medicine and sedentary lifestyles and you can expect another report that recently came out. The report claims that due mainly to obesity, the life expectancy of American is going to be predicted to go down instead of up for the first time in about 200 years.

So the problem is kind of reversing itself. If you don't live long enough to collect the social security that you have coming it remains in the coffer. I say this with my tongue partially in my cheek, but it almost makes sense.