Work is the new retirement – Saving Social Security

[autorank]

It is hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the Social Security. Will the system survive through 2033, the current drop-dead date for full benefit funding? Are cuts in the program really necessary? Is killing off Social Security the ultimate wet dream of sadistic billionaires without regard to the realities of the system?

The solution to the problems of social security is right before our eyes and nobody is talking about it.

Work is the new retirement.

http://agonist.org/work-is-the-new-retirement-saving-social-security/#sthash.rHCW7cM3.dpuf

[GiaGiovanni]

1. Post boomers will have to plan to work into their 70s

It's incredibly disheartening.

K & R

[GP6971]

2. Many boomers

Approaching their full retirement age plan to continue working. This has some of the younger employees upset.........I overheard a couple of them complaining that it was limiting their opportunities for promotion.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. They plan to continue working...

because they cannot afford to retire.

[GP6971]

10. Agree. n/t

[duffyduff]

8. There are at least as many of us who NEED to work but thanks to discrimination

CAN'T get a job at all.

[shraby]

7. Wait till they get to 66. The body makes big changes after 65..and most are not good.

That's when it begins to get earnest about not being up to maintaining a life style.

[shanti]

13. Damn

I thought it was 45!

[awoke_in_2003]

3. It will be killed...

Wall Street wants that money, and they will get it eventually.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. work until you die

except, elderly are discriminated against in the work force. So, work until the corporations no longer have use for you. Then you can go off and die.

"If they'd rather die then perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population"

[duffyduff]

9. You don't have to be "elderly." 50-55 is when discrimination rears its ugly head.

I've been victimized by it, and I NEED to work.

[GP6971]

11. They got me at 51

Thankfully I was able to find something. At much better pay, but coming from the grocery industry doesn't say much.. At least I'm working which I feel lucky about.......could be much worse.

[duffyduff]

12. In five years I have NEVER been able to get back on my feet

I am here in southern Oregon now, which is an awful place to find work, because I had no choice but to leave another state.

I was 53 when I was illegally sacked.

All I can get are substituting jobs, which I can't support myself doing.

[Downwinder]

6. Fewer jobs for youth. More unrest.

[shanti]

14. Fewer jobs for all

Not a future that looks good...