RE: I don’t think America can afford FOR the boomers to retire.
Unfortunately I know of many businesses and companies that will LET YOU GO for your age.
They of course won’t give that as a reason ( age discrimination is illegal ), but they have WAYS of doing it.
AGEISM is rampant in America.
The whole time I was drawing my unemployment. The girl asked me one week, ‘what do you think is the reason?’.
I said, “Age discrimination. I have never been interviewed by anyone over 35 and no one in these places IS over 35. Some of them have no degree and don't want ME there with experience and education. I was sent to a place where the agency said, ‘be sure to wear a suit and be professional’... (in the meantime, I was wearing a suit while I met with HER and SHE WASN'T)!! Anyway, I went to the job she sent me to and the interviewer had on a dirty shirt that was not tucked in or ironed, he had an earring and hadn't shaved a couple of days. THEY didn't want me in their dinky minimum wage job either. It's like that.”
The girl at the unemployment office said, ‘Write that down on the form’. AS IF they'd do anything about it.
Of course age discrimination IS rampant.