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February 21, 2012

Americans’ New Retirement Plan Is A Bed With A Lid

Five years from the age when people once retired, she laughs when she describes her future plans.
“I’ll probably just work until I drop,” she says, a sentiment expressed, with varying degrees of humor, by numerous members of her age group. -- | The Rumford Meteor

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 21, 2012 7:19 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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All of this weeping and wailing about 'no retirement' is pissing me off no end.

I'm 60 and never, ever intend to 'retire' until God forces me. I'm quite well off so $ is not the issue. No, I'm disgusted that so many see lying around, playing f*cking golf all f*cking day, sleeping on a beach, watching TV all f*cking day or drinking as desirable things to do.

Losers. Fools. Morons. Get off your lazy arses and do something. Anything.

'Retirement' is for those who are mentally or physically disabled, not for lazy jerks.

Posted by: Fred Z at February 21, 2012 8:06 PM

Fred Z,

Well said sir. In fact to make things less tempting, I have no couch, no TV, no beach near enough to lie on, I quit drinking years ago and never have played 'pasture pool' / golf. I am not well off as yet, still working on that one at 67 in April.

Posted by: Terry at February 22, 2012 9:22 AM

Same here. I'm 54. I don't know what I'd do with myself if I wasn't working five days a week. I'd probably just drink, smoke, and surf the web; and I do quite enough of that already.

I haven't really researched it, but I doubt that retirement as a concept existed before the advent of Social Security. Before then, most people only "retired" when they either went senile or were maimed in farming or industrial accidents.

Posted by: rickl at February 22, 2012 6:16 PM

You can request to rtreun to active duty.The Secretary of your branch of the military, must approve it.If you come back, you recieve active duty pay and are no longer retired, so do not recieve retirement pay.It as if you nver left.,So you have to retire all over again.No, you cannot change service branch's.

Posted by: Fung at July 13, 2012 3:45 PM

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