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Originally Posted by dreadgeek

You know, here's the thing. I wouldn't mind being asked to work until 70 or 75 (which I plan on doing anyway) to buy the Baby Boom generation some time with Social Security and Medicare I would be happy to do so. I'm 43, it is not unreasonable for me to expect to be capable of working into my seventies. In fact, my 'third act' career plan--for which I am getting my degree(s) now--actually is predicated on me having another 20 to 25 years of work *after* I get out of school in 2014 or 2015.

In fact, I wish that the President would ask that of my generation because that would buy Social Security and Medicare the time they need to recover from the big hit the preceding generation is going to give it. But NOT for the war. Also, I think that this should only apply to people born AFTER 1965. If you are within 15 years of retirement, it would be inhumane to ask that of you but for those of us who have two decades before retirement now, what is another decade?

Cheers
Aj

I can agree to a point with this AJ, but I also was promised 65 was the year I could retire. Now that I'm disabled it isn't an issue, but when one works all their adult life, with the agreement that in their senior years they can retire and enjoy what is left, then a senator who has absolutely no idea what it is to work long hard hours as in construction, or as a shrimper and other jobs that traditionally don't have any benefits attached to them in pensions, asks hard working folks to go another 5 years, it irks me to no end. I can't see asking these folks to work till they are 70. If one is able, and doesn't have a job that can potentially cripple them just in doing the job then I can see it. But to require it of all, um no. I do think it should be voluntary, with no penalty if one has to retire sooner due to their health.