Absolute abdication of the US Constitution for THEIR greed.
The government allows age discrimination in their employment practices that is illegal elsewhere. They will not hire you after age 36.
I am against retirement. Keep the people that know how to do things. Of course I am one of them.
The answer to this is testing. As long as the officers (for example) can pass the physical and mental tests they should be allowed to continue serving (if they so desire).
It’s insane to force out someone who is good at their job and in better shape than most younger people just because he’s 57 or older.
actually no one cares if LEOs are forced to retire..............
I'm not sure there was a heck of a lot of Federal law enforcement officers back in the day of the Founding Fathers.
Now, of course, we have a multitude of them, to the point of needlessly harrassing small Western ranchers who are not illegal aliens.
I have another idea:
Federal judges should be forced to retire at 57.
Personally I think no one should be permitted to spend the majority of his life in government employ. And that means aggregate of ALL types of government including military,police,government schoolteacher,etc.Lifelong government employees are those who tend to have a huge sense of entitlement and a disconnect from the realities of productive wealth generating work. SOME government is necessary,just not as much as we have now.
Ridiculous that this is considered the age to put people out to pasture. The retirement culture is truly oppressive.