@4dae071e It's almost as if contracting out essential government services has potential flaws. 

 @3967703f

I think most sensible people agree that a worker can support a family of four on an annual income of  $15,000/year, assuming they have a time machine and can jump back to, say, 1965 to do all their shopping and buy a house. 

 @9554baeb Screw it, let's raise the retirement age to 100. Why should a roofer in Phoenix or a cement finisher in Buffalo be able to retire before he's dead?