OK, take a guess.\u00a0 How many people in the US are over 112 years old?<\/p>\n
C’mon – guess.\u00a0 100?\u00a0 1,000?\u00a0 5,000?\u00a0 maybe even 10,000?<\/p>\n
Nope.\u00a0 You’re way low.<\/p>\n
According to the Social Security Administration, there are 6.5 million.\u00a0 Well, at least that’s how many active<\/span> Social Security “accounts” exist for with birth dates of 16 June 1901 or earlier – indicating the individual has a current age of 113 or older<\/em>.<\/p>\n Gee, that’s odd.\u00a0 In 2010, there were less than 53,500 persons in the USA<\/a><\/em> that were documented to be even 100 years old.\u00a0 They sure got a lot older in only 5 years – and they multiplied, too!<\/p>\n I wish I was joking about the SSA being so out-to-lunch here.\u00a0 But I’m not<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n The reason for this bit of idiocy?\u00a0 Those conducting the audit – from the SSA’s Officer of the Inspector General – “concluded that SSA lacks the controls necessary to annote death information on the records of number-holders who exceed ‘maximum reasonable life expectancies.’ ”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n And, yes – as you might have guessed, some of those “account numbers” do indeed appear to be being used for unlawful purposes.<\/p>\n Apu the Hindu was right.\u00a0 We are truly screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"