Comments on: Laboring Longer A Growing Trend In U.S.

Without Sufficient Savings, Americans Working Past Traditional Retirement Age

[hypnotoad72]

And ain''''t it great that our taxes are paying for it!

Posted by u-r-right
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Okay, what''s your solution? Assuming you do respond, it''s going to be a very funny read... indeed, do you know anything at all if all you can do is parrot one or two lame-brain catchphrases...?

[hypnotoad72]

! College grads START OUT IN DEBT and have to work half their career paying that off.

America is for the rich, let''''s face it.

Posted by occams_taser
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Then get told to re-train as jobs go off shore. Then look at current costs, skyrocketing because the school staff are greedy and/or costs having to go up because fewer people are attending... for more jobs that will go off shore anyway. Then there are articles like techrepublic.com''s "The Education Scam" that point out if we all had Doctorate''s degrees it really wouldn''t make much difference...

I recall the OC Register offshored its web site and graphic design, claiming "top talent". Try "cheapest wages" -- and if you looked at it yesterday, you''d note half the pages had invalid links or had generic titles... (I keep anti-script applets running -- theirs is the first site that actually vomits because of it. Somebody isn''t conforming to standard programming protocols -- shame, shame, stop the rain.)

[u-r-right]

There''s plenty of gov''ment jobs outside the political arena that still dole out decent benefits such as guaranteed pensions, low cost health and life insurance. And ain''t it great that our taxes are paying for it!

[occams_taser]

The article doesn''t even talk about lack of vacation and working longer hours than everybody but the Japanese. It''s not like quality of life is that great for younger people! College grads START OUT IN DEBT and have to work half their career paying that off.

America is for the rich, let''s face it.

[ddaryl1]

America is fast becoming a _hit country. Allowing citizens who have worked for 40+ years and not pay them a proper pension plan and a social security wage capable of sustaining a modest lifestyle has destroyed the American dream.

But let Wllastreet take more profits, and let them ship more jobs overseas, and let Wallstreet stop pension plans for employees and force them into 401K savings plans that are at the mercy of wallstreet.

Greed is killing this coutnry, and the republicans continually reward the greedy

[occams_taser]

Bush''s comment on this story: "Why that''s uniquely American"

McClone''s comment: "Quit yer whinin, you whiny old coot"

[occams_taser]

If you go by purchasing power PER hour worked, they have a much better standard of living in a bunch of European countries. But Republicans rely on the fact that most Americans either cannot afford to or choose not to travel, so they can be trusted not to have a clue.

[edward1975-2009]

Retiring just in time to die, what a farce our system has become, that those who have worked all their lives, can''t live on the fruits of their labors. That too exist they have to work. What happened to their American dreams, just ask our politicians, who for years stole from Social Security, a private fund supposedly untouchable by government, and never replaced the money. Maybe they can explain this fraud they perpetrated upon taxpayers.

[jmurrieta1]

Boomers--after all the years we worked, with a lousy 2 weeks vacation, pension plans disappearing, lucky to have a 401(k)--to support the "greatest generation" in their retirement--now the Republicans have stolen our retirement.

If you don''t want to die down in that ditch you''ve been digging your whole life--better vote for Obama.

McClone''s retirement plan is marry a millionairess. Nice work if you can get it.