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**Ken Fortenberry[_2_]** · November 19th, 2008, 03:13 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
Scott Seidman wrote:
One would think that a responsible company would properly endow pension
plans as they went along. Isn't that the only tenable way to do this??

The idea that a society can sustain a paradigm where virtually all of
its adults spend the last 1/3 of their workable adult life on vacation
is untenable.

George Will made a similar comment last Sunday on the ABC Sunday
talking head show. "Why are people retiring before they're eligible
for Medicare anyway ?" is a paraphrase and it was in the context
of the auto industry paying health care costs until age 65 when
Medicare kicks in.

I haven't seen my wife so ****ed off since the time my brother
was whining about his precious tax dollars being used to support
the United Negro College Fund (which takes no tax dollars).

She called George Will some things I can't even put on roff. ;-)

Hardly any of my wife's relatives have college degrees and many
of them went to work at the Chrysler plant in Belvidere straight
out of high school. Working on an auto assembly line is real
work, physical work. Doing it for 40 years, roughly 18 to 58,
leaves you too old to safely do the work and seven years shy of
Medicare. And those folks can't just sit on their ass and write
a book to tide them over.

The idea that a society can toss these folks away like spent
machinery is untenable.

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Ken Fortenberry