[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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You’ve got to pick a pocket or two...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HazQlWgdzg

[Huskrrrr]

Hand raised.

[ricmc2175]

They are the only ones with employability and more likely to have actual skills (as opposed to pieces of paper).

[Buckeye McFrog]

1) They can’t afford to retire

2) Work ethics of the under-30 yutes are sucky

[prisoner6]

Well yeah. A lot of us will never stop working. When we do, we die.

On top of that the younger folks don’t have the simple skills those of us who grew up when men were men and women were women knew instinctively.

Question often posed to wife and now adult kids: “What are you going to do when I’m dead?”

Can they repair a car, do plumbing, patch a roof, wire a home, build a radio (especially with nothing more than a razor blade and some wire), husband resources, split wood to provide heat, break their bodies to provide for people they love?

What will they do?

So far no answer...sigh.

[tx_eggman]

Captain double-dip here. pension + 1.8x what they were paying me when I was their “wage slave”. Life is good

[Nervous Tick]

While the millenials are busy Occupying Wall Street, the boomers are available to occupy a desk or a machine tool. And we have the skillz to do so.

[Resolute Conservative]

Xbox, sexting, smoking weed, and sleeping does not equate to a marketable skill.

[Old Yeller]

I bet the number of people on social security “disability” is a lot higher.

[kevinm13]

I resemble that remark.

Unfortunately I’m NOT working now.

[AZLiberty]

I guess we’re still the maker generation. We’ll be makin’ it until we die.

[BfloGuy]

Sooner or later someone will complain that the evil “Boomers” who screwed up, like, the whole world are too selfish to give up their jobs so the kids can work.

[jespasinthru]

Where I work there are several old folks in their late sixties and seventies, and they are afraid to retire. And the company won’t force them out (because of their experience and work ethic), and because turnover among the younger workers is high. As long as the old folks work here, they get the company’s health benefits. Which they really need at this point in their lives. Once they retire, they go straight to Medicare. And some old folks considered Medicare a death sentence even before Obamacare came along. Many of the highly trained medical specialists won’t accept it. The bureaucratic paper hassles and meager compensation just isn’t worth it to them.
I once asked a 72-year-old co-worker why he still works here, when he can just take his pension and go relax. And he replied, “I’m working for the doctor.”

[publius911]

Number Of [unemployed] Older Workers (55 And Over) Rises To New Record High

There.
Fixed it.

Workers with a proven record and decades of experience willing to work for less than they made in their last job, and less than the uneducated graduating mob demands.

[ansel12]

America will suffer when the more intelligent and better looking of us have left the workforce.