DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
Posted on 04/23/2006 11:43:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
At 82, Walter Spain still reports to work several times a week at Home Depot in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Spain thinks employers tend to take a dim view of older workers, overlooking their value.
"Baby boomer exodus - As millions retire, their skills and knowledge will be gone, too ,"
...and one can only their politics, their control of education, and their control of the MSM follows them to the grave.
India.
Engineers and doctors are what I am noticing influxing now.
Not enough jobs! No, wait, too many jobs and not enough people to fill them! The earth is getting colder. No, wait, it's getting hotter! We are running out of food. No, wait, we have too much food and now everybody's getting too fat! We are using too much fuel and we are polluting our environment! No, wait, we don't have enough oil and now the prices are going up! Drinking too much coffee is bad for you. No wait, drinking coffee is good for you! But wait, now it's bad for you again...
Sounds like Sandra Timmerman is a baby boomer.
It's not nice to curse an entire generation, but this one has had more than its share of dropouts, drug addicts, spaced-out idiots, aquarians, clintonoids, and perpetual adolescents. That's not directed toward the many folks of that generation who have lived good lives and carried their share of the load.
Woodstock, fairwell!
Government will merely seize the retirees in an eminent domain brainstorm and force them back to work!
Now c'mon, admit it. You're gonna miss us when we're gone.
lol.. I'm on my second large cup of coffee , btw,, and I'm a tail end baby boomer to boot. ;-)
Gee, I thought the new crop of gruaduates was brilliant!
What happened?
Why the concern of NO BRAINS after boomers retire?
;)
Yeah, the new ones are dumber than you know what!!!
I see this being a problem only if the Federal Reserve or some other government agency tries to interfere with the market. Seeing how they are doing studies, I'm pretty sure they will.
Here, here.
APf
Since it all runs downhill, whatever happens to the "boomers", happens to us by default. We'll be lumped in with them from here on out.
An article that starts this stupidly can't possibly have anything of worth to it.
boomer ping
Good, why doesn't this generation of communist pass away already. Most selfish, hateful, anti American generation of all time.
Of course there are some conservative heroes, but by in large...
On the other hand, rural counties are finding, to their surprise, that some of these retired experts are settling in their midst - where there is has historically been a lack of expertise and available resources. If we could only find them and get them interested in helping their communities, we could see a rural revival.
Many, however, seem to feel that they have raised their families and worked hard and that the community should serve them.
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.
"Just as they have for 60 years, baby boomers are throwing their weight around again....The oldest of the baby boomers turn 60 this year, on the verge of traditional retirement age."
"An article that starts this stupidly can't possibly have anything of worth to it."
Except many people do think the boomers have actually run things since the first one was born.
Instead of looking at modern American history and taking the "Greatest Generation" to task for destroying the country. (I believe the 1965 immigration law was the stake in our heart)
Many impressionable people believe the children and teenagers of the 60s were making all those Supreme Court judgments, and passing all that legislation, and leading the ACLU, and the Feminist movement, the NEA and on and on.
It's going to be the largest transfer of wealth the nation has ever seen as many boomers take their retirement $$ out of the hands of their employers managers and handle it themselves.
Wall Street differs on how this will affect the market with most seeming to come down on the side the market will be affected relatively little since the retirements will be happening over a period of approx. 10+ years.
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