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QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 20:01:05 PM EDT
I grow increasingly enraged at all the "reasonable" people who think increasing the retirement age is the very serious responsible thing to do. If you're 57 and you get laid off from your job, you will find it very difficult to find a job earning anything close to what you were earning before. Even moreso at 65 or 67 (current retirement age for my cohort).

- Atrios
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like my mom (0.00 / 0)
- who couldn't find anyone to hire her as a psychologist or social worker any more, and ended up selling jewelry in a mall at I think it was about age 70.

It's nuts.

Making other people work longer and harder is also (0.00 / 0)
a form of deprivation.  Amazing how many people get satisfaction out of subjecting others to stress without lifting a finger themselves!  

The difference between manipulation and management is that the latter aims to improve performance and extend use.  Manipulation causes stress and wears people out.  Much like stress fractures from metal fatigue, which cause planes to crash.

And we wonder why the American economy is failing.  

Since NH depends on (4.00 / 1)
those who are for all intents and purposes volunteers to run much of our government, at the legislature and at the town level, we should be supporting the chance to retire and then serve the community.  

We believe in prosperity & opportunity, strong communities, healthy families, great schools, investing in our future and leading the world by example. We are Democrats; we are the change you're looking for.
Ha! (0.00 / 0)
That's a bizarre, and excellent, point!

birch, finch, beech
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More from Atrios on the unemployed (0.00 / 0)
Given that the long term unemployed are likely to fuck up their credit ratings, and given that employers now routinely check them, it doesn't take an explicit policy of not hiring the unemployed to make these people largely unemployable.

Still let's raise the retirement age to 75, that will solve everything. Or at least keep the bond market happy, which is the most important thing.



We believe in prosperity & opportunity, strong communities, healthy families, great schools, investing in our future and leading the world by example. We are Democrats; we are the change you're looking for.
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