Shapiro: People Who Retire Die “Within Five Years”

“No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem. Everybody that I know who is — who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years.

“And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick. By the way, it’s disrespectful to people who are 67, 68, 69 years old to suggest that they are in the same shape as people who are 65 — were in 1940. It’s not true at all.

“Have you met a 65 year old lately? 65 year-olds are not old in the United States. They’re not. 68 year-olds are not old in the United States.” – Ben Shapiro, centering much of his rant on attacking Social Security and Joe Biden’s age.

Ben Shapiro on Medicare and Social Security: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.” pic.twitter.com/hpOzS7q4V1

— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 12, 2024