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Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans

Posted by timothy on from the what-color-is-your-parachute? dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Um, or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  2. This is news how? by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  3. Re:Investments! by gentimjs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  4. Re:So what? by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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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    A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
  5. Re:Um, or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, you're not. You make immigrants feel like criminals and second class citizens, people are afraid to come to your country on business these days.

    Really, so you have a cite that the number of skilled immigrants are declining in the US? I work at a tier-1 research school along with various Fortune 50 companies and it's just not true.

    Plus, after absorbing Fannie May and Freddie Mac into the Fed, and being about to absorb a major bank into the Fed, you're poised to lose your AAA borrowing status from the world bank. Which means no more printing US dollars so the rest of the world can hoard them as oil currency instead of cashing them in for US domestic production. Which means you're going to move from being an empire to being a nation.

    Have you checked the European economies lately? Their debt-to-GDP ratio is not far off from ours, and their disasters are just now starting. In fact, a few of them have crappier debt-to-GDP ratios than we do.

    Face it. You're fucked.

    No, not really. But one thing is sure, if we go down, so do you oh simple minded Canuckistani.

    Now get a hair cut and practice a real martial art you ineffective dildo.

    I've seen some small-penis-having jealous Canadians who act out by being shrill critics of the US, but you pretty much take the cake.