[lbo-talk] end of retirement?

[Carl Remick]

>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