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Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans
AxSpark writes "More and more Americans have the tendency to work after retirement and this number is growing day by day. Last year this number was 6 million people of 65 and over working. The reason for that is quite evident: pensions are not enough for sufficient living."
Thats wishful thinking. Its because they need the money, of course, there is people that keep working because they enjoy it, but they have done so in the past as well, so it should not be visible in the statstics.
I bet if US fixed its broken health care system you would see that the trend would be reversed.
Criminy with the fundie VP candidate's part Eskimo daughter showing up preggers and landfall of a cat 3 hurricane yesterday this is the best slashdot could come up with?
People have been working later ever since medicine has figured out a way to increase people's average lifespan.
If you had that extra 14% you would be able to retire 7 years earlier to a dirt-road with no electricity, or did you not realize govt bailouts... excuse me, "subsidies" of failed industry are what fund those things? Or perhaps if the neocon version is correct, if you had that 14% you could retire and live in the alqaeda states of America? Just because you dont realize that you get far more value from paying your tax money then you could EVER get spending it on your own, doesnt mean the rest of us need to live in the stoneage.
Yeah, damn those arrogant assholes that feel entitled to things like food, indoor plumbing, and a roof over their heads. Entitled little bastards.
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