To: GreenHornet
Where did we get the age 65 from? Bismarck, who used that year in his (first in Industrial Europe) pension plan for old-age pensioners in the 1880s.
Time to uptick.
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Where did we get the age 65 from? Bismarck, who used that year in his (first in Industrial Europe) pension plan for old-age pensioners in the 1880s. And Bismark himself was only retired (involuntary) at the age of 75.
30 posted on
06/20/2004 5:05:31 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
Where did we get the age 65 from? Bismarck, who used that year in his (first in Industrial Europe) pension plan for old-age pensioners in the 1880s. In Germany in the 1880s, the majority of the population didn't live long enough to collect!
To: Ronly Bonly Jones
"Bismarck, who used that year in his (first in Industrial Europe) pension plan for old-age pensioners in the 1880s."
Because in those days, almost NOBODY lived that long.
70 posted on
06/21/2004 3:41:53 PM PDT by
Flash Bazbeaux
("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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