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America's Aging Baby Boomers, Forced To Work Until Death, Blamed For Collapsing US Productivity
zero hedge ^ | 31 July 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/01/2016 5:29:28 PM PDT by vannrox

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1 posted on 08/01/2016 5:29:28 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

Ask anyone in the role of hiring and firing what age group they desire for skill, reliability and emotional stability.

Then ask them what age group they are avoiding.


2 posted on 08/01/2016 5:32:16 PM PDT by lurk (T)
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Exactly. My mom is 66 and is still working-she puts in longer days and us more honest and productive than the much younger women in her office.


3 posted on 08/01/2016 5:36:14 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: vannrox

I’m still at it (age 69).


4 posted on 08/01/2016 5:36:47 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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Centralized banking: a few living well off of the churn at everyone else’s expense.

That isn’t its flaw, it is its design.


5 posted on 08/01/2016 5:38:07 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Me too (age 74) ...if you call UBER a job.


6 posted on 08/01/2016 5:39:36 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: lurk

At present “snowflake” still doesn’t have protected group status so I would certainly want to find ways to detect them and as a consequence actively discriminate against them.


7 posted on 08/01/2016 5:40:21 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I’m 61, and I figure I’ll work until I die, or get too sick to work. Started in the berry fields at 7.


8 posted on 08/01/2016 5:47:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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I was going to write that. When I took a job at Barnes & Noble in 2011 due to the recession/depression, the most reliable workers were women over 50. Showed up on time, dressed appropriately, and no nonsense. Some of the kiddies who worked there were bizarre in the extreme.


9 posted on 08/01/2016 5:51:03 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: vannrox

They can be blamed, and with justification, for electing obama.

The rest is history.


10 posted on 08/01/2016 5:51:46 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Instead of spending trillions on the stimulus, they should have given a few million older workers a generous anuity if they would promise to take permanent retirement.


11 posted on 08/01/2016 5:53:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I retired in 2010 at 62.
Went to work for myself on my own farm.
The hours are a lot longer, the work is a lot harder, there are no breaks, there is no help, there are no paychecks, there is no boss but me.
I LOVE IT.
I put in a 14 to 16 hour day on average; but the fruits, vegetables, and meats of my labor belong to me.


12 posted on 08/01/2016 5:56:22 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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Hardly an outlier, this was the latest confirmation of a very troubling trend: all jobs created since the recession started in December 2007 have gone to workers 55 and older.

I wish these f'ing experts would make up their minds about who's getting all the new jobs. Last I read, immigrants to America have gotten all new jobs created since just before Obama took office.

Can't these jerkwads get their lies straight?

WHAT JOBS!!!!!

13 posted on 08/01/2016 5:58:25 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Anti Brexit pointers for the first time in my experience advocated denying elders the vote, something I’ve been anticipating for many years. What is new is the prejudice against active elders. It was the long ago prediction that the pretext for their political disenfranchisement would be that retirees weren’t self supporting. In the event, elder prejudice is legal.


14 posted on 08/01/2016 6:04:16 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Like an old plow horse I will probably die in the harness.


15 posted on 08/01/2016 6:05:25 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Well done.


16 posted on 08/01/2016 6:05:46 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: vannrox

It was the baby boomers that largely drove the world’s debts to impossible amounts to pay back. There are consequences with that. If we weren’t paying so much in interest to service these debts, the economy could hold everybody.


17 posted on 08/01/2016 6:08:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: spokeshave

I am looking forward to getting Social Security, not for income but as a tax cut.


18 posted on 08/01/2016 6:08:48 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: spokeshave; choctaw man

Anything that brings in money from someone is a job. Am about to turn 76. Have two part-time employees who are 70. Smart, efficient and don’t waste time. Moved business to my house several years ago. Figure I can work as long as I can toddle down the hall to the office.

Everything cost more every year. Lots of us oldies have to continue working if we want to maintain our independence. Options are not anything I’m interested in. Better to wear out than rust out.


19 posted on 08/01/2016 6:10:47 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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It was the baby boomers that largely drove the world’s debts to impossible amounts to pay back.

I think you're talking about the old leftist hippies who, like ticks, are now firmly buried within the bureaucracy...

20 posted on 08/01/2016 6:25:23 PM PDT by jonno (Cruz: came to a party, ate the food, drank the wine, and then pissed on the carpet.)
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