[lbo-talk] end of retirement?

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 20 07:39:02 PST 2004



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday; Now Get Back to Work
>
>by Stanley Morgan
>The Brooklyn Rail
>
>... Lower wages, subsidies for the very rich from everyone else,
>drastically scaled-back Social Security and Medicare, the end of corporate
>pensions, untrammelled (and unprosecuted) executive greed and corruption,
>stratospheric medical costs, and massive debt incurred to pay for it
>all--put it together and what do you get: more work, if not from the
>cradle, then most certainly to the grave.

Yes, but look on the bright side: The US is incomparably more civilized than it was 40 years ago.

Carl



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