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Old 04-29-2016, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by nailer View Post
I too retired in 08. When asked how I'm enjoying retirement my canned response is "beats workin."
My Dad had to start working at 14, it was the Great Depression and he was left with no choice, (His father was an alcoholic, incapable of holding a job.). He didn't retire until he was 68. In fact, he too didn't want to retire even then because he had the same ideas in his head that so many people seem to be adopting today; That ANYONE who stops working for any reason is a "bum", etc., etc.....

After he retired, all of that changed. He saw the light. At 68, he was finally free of the yoke.

I am tired of people who don't see that what's going on here is that union pensions, Social Security, Medicare......All of these things made it possible for people like my Dad and his generation to stop working at an age where they were still young and healthy enough to enjoy the free time before they pass. They have convinced a sizeable portion of our current workforce that this is somehow shameful, that it's "welfare" and so on. It has no other purpose than to create an environment wherein work can only be escaped by death or dependency upon relatives, not even after one grows too old to continue.

The Republican Party despises Democracy, despises collective action, hates it when workers look out for each other, despises dissent against their ideology, (Under the notion that their way is the "American Way".) Anyone who complains, strikes or protests is a "pussy" or a "whiner"..............

Can it get any more obvious what that's all about?
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