Work till you're 70 plan leaked

This is London ^ | 6/20/04

[HungarianGypsy]

My dad was 59 or 60 when he was working as a driver for a construction company. They eventually laid him off. Rumor came down because they thought he was too old by the age on his driver's license. Actually, he was actually nine years older than the age on his license.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Jacqui. You've gotta quit playing so hard to get. You are discouraging possible suitors.

[KangarooJacqui]

And I thought Americans weren't capable of irony... heheh.

[KangarooJacqui]

My dad was 59 or 60 when he was working as a driver for a construction company. They eventually laid him off. Rumor came down because they thought he was too old by the age on his driver's license. Actually, he was actually nine years older than the age on his license.

Sadly, gone are the days when any of us can get away with that. Birth certificates, passports, drivers licences, social security numbers (we call em tax file numbers here in Oz, but effectively it's the same thing)... all those pieces of paperwork that prove who we are, how old we are.

[KangarooJacqui]

Sorry, we celebrate our 46th anniversity tomorrow!

Allow me to extend my congratulations to yourself and your good lady wife, then. Boy, in your day you didn't muck around, did you? (My parents were married at 23, some 35 years ago.)

[Moleman]

Early retirement is great as long as it's paid for by the individual
If I didn't have to pay the damn SS tax, I could afford to retire early. As it is I pay all this money and will likely see hardly any of it.

[mlmr]

Yes, I cannot retire until I am 67 and it keeps going up.

[Kackikat]

I thought so, and that means that Britain is just following our lead, right? At 67, isn't that like retiring at 62 now for early retirement, and regular is age 70?

[mlmr]

I think it depends on one's birthday. They are slowly eeking it up. I am sure that my children will retire when they are seventy or eighty if the plan is still in effect.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We do have our rare moments.

[paulat]

""(You single?)"

Sorry, we celebrate our 46th anniversity tomorrow!"


DANG!!!

Mrs. Reed is one happy camper..... ;)

[Kackikat]

We already have this plan.

[gcruse]

Wouldn't work in the US. If you're over fifty and in need of a job, fogeddaboudit. Working to seventy would mean holding a job until you're seventy in an era where there is no loyalty by the company to the employee, hence no loyalty by the employee to the company. Britain must be a different fish.

[Ciexyz]

There's a distressing age discrimination in the US. People are forced (or strongly encouraged) to retire early. When they run for their lives (er, retire), they find that they'll never regain their former earning power. It's an adjustment. The younger folk will force us off the rolls, and then we'll find that our ability to compete in the workplace is sadly diminished.

[Erasmus]

Hey... break it up you wage slaves! Back to work!

Yeah! Back on your heads!

[Erasmus]

I bet you've got the body of a man half your age. (You single?)

I once had the body of a woman half my age.

<]B^)

[freekitty]

Sometime ago, social security sent out information showing what you would make in benefits including at age 70.

[KangarooJacqui]

Well, I always say "You're only as old as the man you feel"... (which was a great line when I turned 25 and I was living with a 20-year-old.)

[gcruse]

The combination of a jobless market and age discrimination forced me into an unplanned early retirement at age 59. It's a rough adjustment, but financially is working out just fine. My problem is I can feel the IQ points draining away without the workplace.

[dalereed]

"I bet you've got the body of a man half your age."

I still have the same body as I did 50 years ago in high school (still wear the same size clothes) although i'm not quite as quick as I was at 40 but can still outwork 80% of them.

Even in the 40 years that I owned and ran a construction company I never gave up working physically. Since I closed the company I don't put in 12 hours a day 6 days a week any more, I cut it back to 8 or 9 hours 6 or 7 days a week.