Posted on 06/04/2012 6:03:48 AM PDT by Perdogg
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I’m not working until I’m 80 to pay for some deadbeat to retire from the public sector at 55.
The Germans feel that way about the Greeks right now.
Except I believe the Greeks get to retire at age 50!
I have a feeling that would only be through forced labor camps. There are a lot of other options for the Citizen to pursue before that is imposed upon us.
55?
Ha we should be so lucky.
All teachers and professors because of the stress?
Unless you own your own company it is not realistic, because in spite of age discrimination laws companies, trim older workers from their payrolls as they approach their early 60s.
In the Obama economy, there simply aren’t enough jobs to allow current members of the workforce to work for an additional 15-18 years, and still allow younger people into the workforce.
Dick Lugar is 80, so I guess he was due.
Orrin Hatch is 78. Close enough for government work.
Thats a bit later that I’m planning on (I’m 51 and I don’t see retirement happening before 70).
But it sort of coincides with what I’ve said previously. With demographics being what they are, and with this country’s slow slide towards socialism, I think retirement will soon be a concept enjoyed only by the wealthy.
—I’m not working until I’m 80 to pay for some deadbeat to retire from the public sector at 55.—
Though I agree with the sentiment, when this has played out, I think most of us will just be glad that we and “some” of our kids made it out alive. Assuming we DID.
—Greece, where the average life expectancy is 81.3 years, has an effective retirement age of 59.6, among the lowest in Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. —
In the US, when SS was started, the average life expectancy was less than the SS retirement age. So in Greece, retirement now should kick in at 82.
So true.
—Unless you own your own company it is not realistic, because in spite of age discrimination laws companies, trim older workers from their payrolls as they approach their early 60s.—
I’m 58 and made the move back to IT contracting to enable my move from Seattle to KY. I made the decision last month that when I re-enter the job market I’m slicing the back 10 years off my resume and removing the dates from my school graduations. I can get away with it because I come across as anything from 15-20 years younger than I am, but I gotta get in the door first...
Contracting is great for “older” workers, because the employers want experience, first and foremost. Conversely, when hiring “employees”, they want something without too much mileage on it.
I am retiring at 62 1/2. Even if I am broke. I will sit on my ass and eat beefaroni and do nothing. I will go Galt. I am tired of feeding the pig.
Last I checked the average American MAN has a life expectancy of 72 years, maybe slightly more.
Lumping both sexes together distorts the overall picture because females live much longer than males on the average.
I suppose men now have to work to death before getting a cent from 60 years of paying in?
Not this one. I’m retiring at the fist allowable time.
Guess I am in the minority here. Since my dad retired all he does is putter around the house. I think I’d go absolutely insane. I may keep on working till the day I die, strictly for mental health reasons.
It's almost 76 now.
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