[GilGil]

This explains why the economy is doing so well. With people retiring as early as their mid twenties and with that figure having doubled in 10 years this economy has turned into a miracle.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That was a joke on the first season of Portlandia in 2012.

“Come to Portland. It’s where young people go to retire!”

Guess no one is laughing anymore.

[GilGil]

[Stentor]

HAHAHAHAHA. And some tool will come on this thread to defend government statistics and insist the economy is “improving”.

[Slyfox]

Retired as in not having to work anymore because they are on welfare.

Most retirees do something to keep busy in the retirement years, some do make money in their spare time.

How many of these "retirees" are selling pot and drugs on the side?

[Jonty30]

Aside from being a silver Spooner or winning the lottery, how do you retire at that age?

[publius911]

But it begs the question..
How were they able to retire?
Permanent SS "disability?"

Or some other disguised form of permanent welfare?

More inside the cart.
Fewer pulling it?

[txrefugee]

LOL…”retired” in this case means sleeping in Mom’s basement because there are no jobs. With Starbuck’s hiring more college graduates than they need, the unemployed are forced into “retirement” without ever having had a job. Sick... the fresh load of lies published every week for our consumption by the Democrat media.

[Gaffer]

Yeah...I saw one this morning with a 5 year old kid and a weeks-old baby under her arm at Walmart logging up a $120 bill. She snuck up that SNAP card and swiped it lickety split. Went outside and got in a brand new minivan.....

She was dressed very nicely and maybe 20....

[MeganC]

I suppose I ‘retired’ at age 18?

[BlackAdderess]

Are these disabled vets?

[mountn man]

I’ve got a couple of distant cousins who got knocked up by guys who have retired by their early 20’s.

[Vic S]

It’s been planned for a long time to turn the United States into a de-industiralized welfare state. This is the goal of the One World Government type people.

Here’s a quote from 1962. He’s off by many years, but it’s still interesting:

“The image of the world in 1987 as traced in my imagination: the Cold War will be a thing of the past. Internal pressure of the constantly growing intelligentsia in Russia for more freedom and the pressure of the masses for raising their living standards may lead to a gradual democratization of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, the increasing influence of the workers and farmers, and rising political importance of men of science, may transform the United States into a welfare state with a planned economy. Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of autonomous states having a Socialist and democratic regime.

- Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, invited in Jan. 16, 1962 to predict what the world would be like in 25 years, wrote in LOOK magazine

[posterchild]

I suspect retiring is good work if you can get it.

[GraceG]

Maybe we should all retire early and basically strike against high taxes and confiscatory government?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Claim the unemployed as “retired”. That’s one way to keep the unemployed numbers low.

[Reddy]

So the new word for “on welfare” is “retired”?

Good to know.