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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Brian Westley)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.women
Subject: Re: Allstate Insurance says women don't deserve equal pay with men
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 10:32:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 10:32:53 1984
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<Urp!>
(..in reply to 'you gets out what you pays in' for retirement benifits..)
But an income of x dollars for y months is not what retirement pay is!
It is an income of x dollars per month for the rest of your life, whatever
that may be, and I think it is damn unfair to base life expectancy on
arbitrary things like sex, and not smoking, drinking, weight, etc, which
has FAR MORE to do with your total life expectancy.  If insurance companies
DID base rates on these factors, it would be obvious how ridiculous the
system really is, since (as I said) fat men who smoke & drink would get the
highest reitement pay.  You are thinking of an IRA, not retirement benifits.
						Merlyn Leroy