Posted on 08/01/2016 5:29:28 PM PDT by vannrox
I go for older workers and vets
They belong to you until the dems turn the US into Venezuela.
Good for you.
Your not talking about this boomer, bubba. The only debt we have is the mortgage and I could go online and pay it off tonight...but we’re earning more than its costing us.
all I counted on was a measley 5% interest rate and we would be millionaires....
not happening...
62 here....will go at it at a very demanding job for at least one more year...maybe more....
then there is the rest of us....job market not nearly as open for us, the defined pension scheme on its way out, plus we pay more of our money in taxes and we work longer to get SS....
and the older boomers are very liberal....why not....they got into the money grab when the money was good...
The ObamaCare employer mandate that requires employers to provide medical insurance for their employees makes older workers completely radioactive. Employers have a financial interest in staying away from employees in an age cohort that has the highest medical expenses and isn't yet eligible for Medicare.
oh isn’t that nice....collecting govt money from my taxes all these years....so special...
Not being a Welfare Brood Mare. Guess you think we should just be happy about being in various armpits of the world and getting shot at just for the fun of it.
You, and the others who have made this point, are correct. Not everybody in that generation was to blame as some did know what the eventual consequences of borrowing from the future would create.
I didn’t to blame every baby boomer, just the ones that have created a future that would eat their grandchildren.
Started in the berry fields at 7.
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I’ll bet that wasn’t a berry good job!
I started in the cotton fields myself but I didn’t cotton to it
(I just can’t stop myself)
It was the baby boomers that largely drove the world’s debts to impossible amounts to pay back. There are consequences with that. If we weren’t paying so much in interest to service these debts, the economy could hold everybody.
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“ErnBatavia”, you and your buds are responsible for this mess. Aren’t you the slightest embarrassed by it?
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Bingo. The cost to provide benefits, and having to pay a decent wage seem to outweigh productivity in their book.
Modern HR practices are weaponized bigotry against people who actually know how to get things done.
When combined with the lowered standards of Affirmative Action and the high expectations set by the University system for "work-life balance", it's a recipe for lower productivity.
It's the older workers that are keeping the economy moving forward.
Certainly the kids of today are neither willing or able to do it.
....my skin once soft is wrinkled now,
....my hair once black has turned to white
My heart has become heavy, my knees that once danced nimbly like fawns cannot carry me,
How often I lament these things - but what can be done?
No one who is human can escape these things.
From: "How to Grow Old" by Marcus Tullius Cicero (45BC)
New translation by Philip Freeman
You described it perfectly. For practical reasons, no one wants to hire the “over 50” worker (though it has been going on even before Obamacare was enacted).
Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, those are the exceptions; and maybe those people with exceptional career skills can still get hired. Otherwise, as you said, older workers are radioactive.
I hope folks here will take the time to read the job discussion forums found on the internet (50+ worker). It paints a sad and serious picture for many older Americans. Trust in God is the only answer for us all.
It was the baby boomers that largely drove the world’s debts
Damn right. Clinton, Bush, Obama.....????? We’ll be in the ground if another Clinton is elected. We will be completely socialist if we lose 2020. Our country is over if a Democrat wins 2024. Kiss America goodbye.
We could end up with 5 Boomer Presidents by 2028....Good God how Americans hate themselves.
“at the expense of younger Millennials who are unable to find jobs due to... older workers who refuse to retire for no other reason but simply because their savings no longer generate a cash flow”
For no other reason? Was this written by a person who comes from a country where the average age at death is 46 or just regurgitation of the 60’s? Tell you what, Millennials. You guys want $15/hr to answer a phone or take a food order. So, fine, I’ll give up my job if you pay me $15/hr to retire. But you’d have to, like, cut your twitter and facebook time by about 80% to keep up productivity to afford paying yourselves $15 and paying me $15. Now what?
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