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To: epicure who wrote (144228)	9/15/2010 2:10:41 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) of 540952

but retirement in the 60's? I don't think so- not on my dollar. Harsh. Well to start, it's not on your dollar. What is on your dollar is when they go on disability like you mentioned - that is on your dollar. We have real unemployment now at something like 16% and you want a worker to retrain when he is in his 60's because he (or she) is unable to physically do his job? And what do you think that will do to unemployment roles? Better to admit the realities that the human body is unable to work beyond a certain point and deal with that fact. Some people because of genetics are able to work longer than others - but in any case the physical abuses of some jobs forces limits on how long a person can work. Think football as an extreme example. They work at best until their 30's and then are forced to retire because they can't keep up. They get paid accordingly, but a man doing hard construction work most certainly is not at the high end of the pay scale. Just go spend one day working with a concrete man or a roofer or a plumber as he crawls around under a house and tell me again they need to be doing this until they are 70. That is just absurd.

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