[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Oh, is it not true?

You tell 'em too!!!

Sadly morons don't learn from history, their mistakes, and the mistakes that they see their friends make. Then they go out and don't save for retirement, expecting the govt. to take money away from others and give it to them when they want it. Although Harry doesn't seem to fit the moron definition perfectly, he didn't bother saving for retirement.

[CindyDawg]

He just needs to make lemonade from his lemons. It might be the perfect opportunity to start his own business. With that kind of attitude it probably wasn't that great a job anyway.

[Glenn]

Then they go out and don't save for retirement, expecting the govt. to take money away from others and give it to them when they want it.

I read nothing of the sort in this article about Harry. You are just using him to express a point of view even though there is a vacuum of fact.

That Harry is 59 and would like to continue to work is laudable. I'd guess he has a 401k somewhere he'd like to continue to contribute to, though I have no facts to support the guess.

The one fact is, we tech oldsters do have to face the fact that there is a pasture and we will be put out in it if it is the will of the boss. You bring up proper points, but I'm not sure they apply to Harry.

[McGavin999]

he didn't bother saving for retirement.

Sometimes things happen in life to deplete those savings, sometimes things happen that make savings impossible. An illness in the family that far exceeds insurance coverage, a family tragedy that sees you taking on the children of another family member. Not everyone can live well planned lives.

[Old Professer]

This story is just another in a long line of stories written to elicit sympathy, empathy and identification from the reader, where the writer begins his story with a character, real or composite and then builds his case around that character's circumstance; I have been looking for a fitting term for such style and am about ready to settle on, "exemplar exploitation."

To my way of thinking, such writing is lazy, demeaning both to the writer and his hapless reader and good only as filler for unsold ad space.

[GingisK]

...he didn't bother saving for retirement...

Purely an assumption on your part. I know many people who lost ample retirement savings in the stock crash of the late '80s or early 90s.

[Miss Marple]

Many of these people were promised pemsions, which in the world of the past were inviolate. They were paid less because they had pensions, and then the companies pulled the pension out from under them.

We have been through three lay-offs. Go through that and see how much savings you have left.

[gedeon3]

Well mr perfection, one day I hope you find yourself with no money and not a single asset. And when you die, I hope somebody will piss on your grave. The man making now 8 an hour is not taking from others; you on the other hand are taking up oxygen.