What Say All Us Boomers Retire ASAP And Then See What Happens...

[Johnny Harpo]

First a caveat:
I try to read DU every day. I don't post much, either here or elsewhere, but that does not mean I'm not here or that I'm not paying attention, or at least trying to.

I respect all of you guys and learn a great deal from your informed posts, so no disrespect is intended.

Now this is going to sound like a rant, but this one struck a nerve early this morning just before I went to a job interview in hopes of ending a 2 year run of un-employment.

Yes...I am a Boomer (born 1947).

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THAT'S THE TICKET!...have all of us Boomers retire ASAP! As a reply in SMW says 'frankly we need them to'.

I remember reading a number of times in the past, various articles expressing a real concern about having a shortage of workers to fill jobs once the Baby Boomers retired.

But Wait!...Not a problem or concern or worry any longer because some brilliant mind decided the best way to mitigate this problem/concern/worry would be to import foreign workers,
give them H1B work visas and let them take the jobs.

Trouble is...NO ONE WAITED UNTIL WE RETIRED!

Our jobs started being filled by outsiders years ago. Imported from other countries, living 6 to a 3 bedroom apartment, sharing 2 cars between them, splitting rent and utilities 6 ways, working for less money but still making more than they would make 'back home'.

But that was then...and this is now.

Now another brilliant mind has come up with yet another way to fill our jobs.

NO WAIT!...It's the SAME idea. So much for original thought Mr. President.

Obama's jobs plan includes more H-1B visas, automatic green cards for foreign students

http://www.wral.com/business/story/9721770 /

With millions un-employed in the USA, the answer is to allow still more foreign workers to come here and take even more of our jobs.

And when our un-employment numbers don't fall, all the 'brilliant minds' will scratch their heads and scratch their asses wondering what happened.

While at the same time wondering why the Boomers are in such dire circumstances.

YOU FREAKING DUMMIES!....You allowed our jobs to be sent to foreign countries and then you allowed foreign workers to come here and pick over what was left!

What the hell did you think was going to happen?

RETIRE?....NO WAY!

I have just been through 2 years of 'forced retirement' otherwise known as un-employment.

If I am fortunate enough to be offered the job I interviewed for this morning, I intend to die in my cubicle.

To para-phrase Charlton Heston to the NRA:

They can have my key access card when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

[Vincardog]

1. Recommend + 1 = Zero HMMM

[larwdem]

2. wtf

that can work if they lowered the retirement age to 55 or 60 many people would retire the jobs market would be in demand again and wages would go up and unemployment down.:shrug:

[GCP]

3. I'd retire tomorrow if there was a Medicare buy-in

I'm really only working for the health insurance.

[LooseWilly]

4. Boomers thinking "me me me"? How shocking!!

:rofl: