From the debate with democrat Brad Carson, this is what Republican Tom Coburn said in response to the question, why do you argue for privitization of Social Security?

 

 

If you die... If you're an African American male in this country, you die before the average... your average life expectancy is less than the retirement age of social security. How, what kind of plan is that that we're gonna take from those because they had a genetic predisposition to have less of a life expectancy. You're gonna steal from them and give it to somebody else. The fact is that we can solve the problem. We can't solve it if we won't talk about it. And we can do with what Albert Einstein said was the most powerful force on earth, which is compound interest. Get it out of the hands of the politicians. (Emphasis mine.)

 

 

Coburn has a reputation for this stuff.

http://www.dailykos.com/

Never mind the fact that blacks are poorer and have less access to healthcare.

 

Methinks we might want to clear these hurdles before tackling the statistic genetic dispositions they have to die earlier.