A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis says people aren’t living as long as they used to, so that should help protect them from losing Social Security and Medicare protections when they get old.
“It should reflect life expectancy and what we’ve had in this country is a pretty significant decline in life expectancy. And so given those circumstances to raise (qualifying ages), it would be cutting against where the demographics are going. So that’s not going to happen,” the Governor said in Iowa Saturday.
DeSantis made the comments during a Never Back Down event in Garner, and it continues a theme of recent vintage in which he has noted people are dying at younger ages than they did years back.
During an interview earlier this month, the Florida Governor told CNBC viewers that “in the last five or six years, life expectancy in the United States has gone down.”
He did not blame it solely on the COVID-19 pandemic, even after his interviewer’s prompting.
“I think it started before COVID and I think it’s continued even here afterwards. I think it’s more than, more than just COVID. I mean, I think that there’s deaths of despair. I think you have (drugs),” DeSantis said.
Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased to 76.4 years in 2023 from 77.28 in 2020, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
“So, I think it’s hard to say, you know, raise the age (for Social Security eligibility) when the average life expectancy is going down. We used to think that life expectancy was just going to keep going up and that’s just not been the case.”
DeSantis’ position on senior citizen entitlements has been a moving target in recent months, as he has been walking back previous calls for “market forces” and privatization to replace current programs.
DeSantis has said before that changes for younger generations are inevitable, noting he doesn’t expect to draw the entitlement without material changes in federal practices.
“I think a lot of younger people like me are receptive to this because I don’t assume we’re going to get any of this at this point right now,” the 44-year-old Governor said during a May interview with John Stossel.
49 comments
My Take
August 26, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Kill the Old !
And other useless.*
DeSShorty continùes to brag on his covid policy.
Tens of thousands of additional dead . . . but sports bars ćould remain jumping.
*The Nazis cleared their nursing homes with needles and pills.
Brian
August 27, 2023 at 9:01 am
They also burned the books.
Nadine
August 27, 2023 at 11:13 am
The current Gop tried that. Weather was too hot already.
don
August 27, 2023 at 9:46 am
His policy worked better than Bidens and Cuomos etc- for individuals, students , businesses and the state’s economy.
Linda
August 27, 2023 at 9:51 am
He crashed the hospital system and created a shortage of nurses. It’s tough to find medical care in some places now.
FloridaPatriot
August 28, 2023 at 2:06 pm
And he has now moved on to crashing education.
Silly Wabbit
August 27, 2023 at 12:31 pm
You kwazy.
Mark miller
August 27, 2023 at 2:11 pm
How’s your home owners insurance
Robbi
September 8, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Not to mention car insurance has skyrocketed. Where is our damn governor? Oh, that’s right I forgot he’s on the campaign trail using the monies that Floridians had donated to better equipped Florida. He decided to use it for his campaign for the presidency, which he will never become thank God.!
Robbi
September 8, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Not to mention car insurance has skyrocketed. Where is our damn governor? Oh, that’s right I forgot he’s on the campaign trail using the monies that Floridians had donated to better equipped Florida. He decided to use it for his campaign for the presidency, which he will never become thank God.!
Gary
August 28, 2023 at 2:00 am
Do you live here? I do. The DeSantis Covid story is pure, unadulterated BS. The economy was horrific here through the entire active phase of the epidemic. And inflation is, by far, the highest in the nation. He is the worst governor in the history of governors. He stinks.
Mike Reeves
August 28, 2023 at 8:35 am
Not really. And, he shut down, accurate reporting.
I happen to now, because, i work, in the conservative media industry.
Republicans, btw, died, at a higher rate, than non republicans, in the same democgraphics. why? because of folks, like, Governor ron, who downplayed the vaccine, which saved lives. Again, I know. I’ve talked with too many folks in the medical industry and hospitals here in florida. It was unforltunately, quite common, to hear these dying words, “i wish I would’ve got the vaccine.”
Robbi
September 8, 2023 at 12:51 pm
You’re wrong about the Covid vaccine. Millions have died suddenly because of crazy symptoms coming up after they get the clot shot not to mention it’s only the vaccinated people who seem to get Covid over and over and over again. I’m glad I never took the vaccine, it’s a bio weapon.
Michael K
August 26, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Well, Florida led the nation in COVID deaths under his leadership, so I guess he’s doing his part.
Melinda Yexley
August 27, 2023 at 9:11 pm
That about says it.
Earl Pitts "Earl Told Ya So" American
August 26, 2023 at 7:01 pm
Good evening America,
Most politicians are not at liberty to tell “The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth. Fourtunatly your hero, Earl Pitts American, is here to tell you that kind of truth:
THE TRUTH
Mostly the shorter life span is due to the unhealthy life style choices made by a certian group (or groups) of our population here in America. I, Earl Pitts American will run some unhealthy life choices by you and next to them the type of American most comonly engaged and termanially affected [Shorter Life Span] by these poor life choices:
Drugs.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Un Protected Sex. ) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Drunkeness.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Rioting.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Driving like idiots.) Dook 4 Brains leftists
Experiamental sex surgury and unproven sex hormones.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Over eating.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Behaving like an annoying B.hole.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Tobacco use along with various types of Vaping.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Gun violence.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Men wearing Crocks.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Pedophilia. ) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Men wearing hoodies in the summer. ) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Wearing pajama pants in public. ) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Man Hair Style Buns . ) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
Taking too many vaxcines.) Dook 4 Brains Leftists
So America there you have it. After reading the list above you may be able to pin point a segment of society most at risk to live a shorter life-span and thus free up a lot of Social Security Benifits.
If you are able to comprehend the above true facts and determine which segment of our society is most likely to die early – or even if you would just like to submit a random guess please leave your choice in the comment section below.
Thank you America,
EPA
Each Nazi Was Christian First
August 27, 2023 at 8:56 am
A typical and expected Christian comment.
Dangerously undereducated, Christians are the only threat to the planet.
Wanton and reckless, Earl’s kin went to Jacksonville yesterday and visited a Dollar store.
Jal Para
August 27, 2023 at 9:13 am
Ditto.
Beverly Brevity
August 27, 2023 at 12:32 pm
Too many words, Earl. Not gonna read’m.
Wokefighter
August 27, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Where did you get your facts to back up your lies? From the Republican talking points. The Biden administration has a lower unemployment rate and higher GNP than the Trump administration, actually paid down the national debt unlike Trump who increased it.
FloridaPatriot
August 28, 2023 at 2:07 pm
You are truly one of those smooth brains.
Joe The Plumber
August 26, 2023 at 8:34 pm
Thanks Earl,
This is like an excerpt from a top notch social-science research project.
I got out my scientific calculator and did the complex math. And Earl I came up with a shocking revelation that it may be the Dook 4 Brains Leftists who are going to leave society 20 – 28.5 years earlier than the governments actuarial tables predict.
This will free up tons of money to either fund Social Security for the next 500 years or be whizzed away by “Rich Men North Of Richmond” in 3.5 years.
Its more important than ever to vote conservative my fellow patriots.
Joe
WhatNow
August 27, 2023 at 12:20 am
– You made no sense at alli. that post of yours, “dook 4 brains” whatever-you-are…
Jal Para
August 27, 2023 at 9:14 am
Guess you missed Earl’s post that he’s replying to. Now that post made no sense.
My Take
August 27, 2023 at 8:04 pm
The usuàl Net response here is “Whoosh!”
Mark miller
August 27, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Hey joe too many times you put your head in a toilet
FloridaPatriot
August 28, 2023 at 2:12 pm
Aren’t you a conservative and didn’t you just die at a early age, Mr. Joe the plumber?
PeterH
August 26, 2023 at 9:58 pm
Is there any group of Americans that Ron DeSantis has not disenfranchised?
Republicans are America’s biggest problem!
Vote all Republicans out of office!
don
August 27, 2023 at 9:55 am
If repubs are the biggest problem, why do DEM run cities and states experience the greatest amount of lawlessness, homelessness, lower educational success, a lower standard of living, etc,etc.
Your comment isn’t logically, intellectually, or statistically correct.
It is a lie!
Michael K
August 27, 2023 at 11:50 am
Actually, seven of the highest top ten states for murder are in red-governed states. These red-states have the highest rates of gun violence: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Maryland and Georgia.
My Take
August 27, 2023 at 3:21 pm
That the American South was its murder-land was recognized and written about centuries ago .
Some blamed the largely Celtic origins of its whites.
TJC
August 27, 2023 at 12:42 pm
Here’s a fact: right wing whiners like you constantly claim Democratic cities like Chicago are wastelands of crime and a drain on the country. Chicago, like every big city in America, does have slums where the poor become victims of gang violence. And that makes headlines, as it should. But Chicago is also an economic powerhouse with a GDP (gross domestic product) greater than most nations on the planet — only 21 countries have a GDP greater than the city of Chicago. The same is true of Los Angelas, New York, and other Democrat cities in America. The slums of those cities are crime-ridden, but those cities are the economic engines of the United States.
FloridaPatriot
August 28, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Have you seen the educational backgrounds of Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and other low IQ Red states?
Michael K
August 28, 2023 at 1:02 pm
Old straight white under-educated men.
tom palmer
August 26, 2023 at 10:18 pm
Well, actually, before modern medical advances such as antibiotics came onto the scene, a lot of early Social Security recipients retired, caught pneumonia a few years later and died rather than surviving into their 80s and 90s as is more common these days.
DeSantis seems to be making things up as he goes along, though.
Janis Lentz
August 26, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Another predictable example of Ron’s bad case of foot-in-mouth disease! The sun has SET on his lame candidacy!
WhatNow
August 27, 2023 at 12:16 am
“It should reflect life expectancy and what we’ve had in this country is a pretty significant decline in life expectancy.“ – Largely as a result of governmental policies such as HIS. Anybody know how much shorter *his* lifespan will be?
don
August 27, 2023 at 10:01 am
IF ‘his’ refers to desantis you are stupidly wrong. His policies affect Floridians. On the other hand,if ‘his’ refers to Biden you are correct; as his policies affect the entire country
Best thing.
August 27, 2023 at 9:05 am
The best thing I can say about Ron is May he never make it to 45 years old.
Bill karp
August 27, 2023 at 12:22 pm
Soylent green
Michael K
August 27, 2023 at 12:42 pm
Of course, Governor DeathSentence’s lax open-carry gun policy will also help accelerate more death.
My Take
August 27, 2023 at 6:14 pm
DeSSlayem is activey working to reduce average life expectacies.
His armed crazy base does the actual “wet work.”
My Take
August 27, 2023 at 6:15 pm
I really need edit.
Richard Russell
August 27, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Ron, you can thank the mining of rare earth minerals and fertilizer for reducing the life expectancy for those poor souls living along the core of Bone Valley. And with your latest payoff to the miners they will be expanding their efforts which will only be reclaimed but NOT RESTORED to their original habitat for many, many years. Destroying more of the wetlands that filter the toxic waste out of our water is not a solution either!
Margaret
August 27, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Every time DeSantis opens his mouth, he supplies the rope to hang himself as a Presidential candidate. For someone who graduated from 2 Ivy League schools, he is certainly stupid in his analysis of social trends. I have news for him. My generation, born in 1940-45 is living quite well into their 80s, healthy and productive in their old age. His analysis is incorrect, as so much of his thinking (as it were) is.
Earl Pitts "Earl Told Ya So" American
August 27, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Thank you to all the great postings above. It is plain to see that even the posts which pretend to be against the great wisdom of me, Earl Pitts American, are only pretending because they likley have been captrued by Dook 4 Brains Leftists and are posting dirty lies against me under fear of having their fingers cut off with cigar cutters by their Dook 4 Brains leftist captors.
Dont worry I, Earl Pitts American, am pinpointing your exact locations and will storm in to rescue you all as soon as possable.
Keep the faith my loyal fans.
Earl Pitts American
Scott
August 28, 2023 at 6:54 am
SS and Medicare are not entitlement programs. I paid taxes for SS and Medicare benefits. I also served my country in the US Army. The last thing I want is something I’m not entitled to.
Rob
August 28, 2023 at 9:10 am
nothing but a bunch of smooth brained commies jerking each other off in the comments it seems.
My Take
August 28, 2023 at 10:02 pm
Conservatives are brain-stem “thinkers.”
The reptilian part of the brain.
Fear, anger, territory, hunger, lust, congeners (today race or cult).
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