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Showing Original Post only (View all)You Want to Raise the Retirement Age? Walk a Mile In Our Shoes First [View all]
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/you-want-raise-retirement-age-walk-mile-ou(Chuck Todd: Republicans will give Democrats all the revenue they want, if they just agree to raise the retirement age. Trust them.)
I don't know about anyone else, but as someone who has actually worked at one of those jobs where you take a shower at the end of the work day and not before you go in, I'm sick to death of watching these overpaid television pundits and their counterparts in the Congress, nonchalantly discussing raising the retirement age. It may not matter much to them, but there are real economic hardships involved when you force the average wage earner out there to continue to work until they drop dead if the retirement age is raised any higher than it already is now.
If our beltway Villagers and politicians really believe that it's no big deal to raise the retirement age for the rest of America, how about we ask them to walk a mile in our shoes? I wonder if any of them would decide that maybe it's not such a great idea to be doing physical labor well into your late sixties if they were the ones actually having to do those jobs?
I wonder if Chuck Todd would be a little more worried about when he might be able to retire if he were say, some migrant worker picking berries and in need of daily visits to the chiropractor he can't afford because his back is screaming all day from being bent over?
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My dad was an autobody repairman. He was always handling some large piecee of
amandabeech
Nov 2012
#1
So right! We have a good friend, a plumber, who has had to retire early at 62 because his left
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#18
Anyone in a job that requires physical effort should be able to get some sort of help
amandabeech
Nov 2012
#29
Nine hours on a conference call would turn me into a stark, raving lunatic!
greatauntoftriplets
Nov 2012
#52
That's ok, I stole it from some politician during recent discussions about screwing
jtuck004
Nov 2012
#40
Well...the group with the lowest life expectancy in the US are African American men
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2012
#54
+1000. All the profits of our modern society are winding up in Cayman Island tax shelters...
reformist2
Nov 2012
#24
Yeah, I was 4 when he was elected in 1980, but when asked immediately name him as worst president
Salviati
Nov 2012
#65
That's just it...anybody who thinks that way has zero empathy or concern. Their attitude is
forestpath
Nov 2012
#19
We're now seeing life get worse for each new generation of Americans. The "dream" is over. nt
Romulox
Nov 2012
#21
We're a smart country - why can't we have different retirement ages for different types of work?
reformist2
Nov 2012
#23
They want to raise the retirement age all while the corporations are kicking people out younger
liberal N proud
Nov 2012
#26
Todd's just reporting what someone told him. Hint: Todd is not part of the govt.
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#36
You are seeing things through a foggy lens. You are seeing what you want to see.
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#42
Oh, I didnt realize Todd had raised the Medicare elgibility age. He's powerful!
Honeycombe8
Nov 2012
#50
at one job, I would chat with the janitor in the evening, he explained that his knees
Liberal_in_LA
Nov 2012
#61
And how many people stay in exactly the same line of work their entire lives? n/t
eridani
Nov 2012
#62
I understand the position but I do think some sort of social security & medicare
cecilfirefox
Nov 2012
#66