@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:
In re: your statement that old people, if they are hired, will just be in the way.
A mfger near in western Mass hires older workers. Some of the company's employees are over-90. They work part-time and are valued as employees. Some people will have no choice but to work until they are 70. However, that is nothing new: there were always people who had no choice.
I remember when I was in grad school and would meet my friends in the cafeteria in the morning for coffee. A rather elderly woman bussed tables. A friend said that it was a shame such an old woman was forced to work such an undignified job.
I have thought of that remark over the years. Sometimes, I feel as if his remark was a portend.
Let's have every old one in America move to Mass to cure them of giving old people work...
And, a job is not a cure... Consider that primitive peoples in their life times were able to produce enough to carry them through old age, and while they we often left behind at some point it was not without regrets and honor... We cannot manage to honor the old, but wish them dead...
Before they are gone they are often forced by reverse mortgages to dispose of the capital of a life time for their basic support...Why is it, that with all our increased ability to produce, that people are forced to work longer hours and to a greater age than ever; and that we cannot lay enough aside to support ourselves in old age???
Counting on social security, people had less children, but also demanded less in wages, and they got less, and now that inflation robs from them, or rather because the government robs from everyone it will not tax with inflation, they are robbed of the value of everything they have managed to put aside...The government has broke social security... They could give me what they put into it, but let them remember that what they took out of my father they denied to me, and what they take out of me they have denied to my children... They want to break the whole government to justify their taking of social security...
I only hope the old still have some balls between their legs and can lay hands on a gun... They are the only ones who can effect revolution, and if robbed of all, they will have nothing to lose... If thrown in prison they will at least have three squares and a roof...
