Austerity Rhetoric Needs to Go

like those who promote such nutball ideas as raising the retirement age to 80.

I guess if you are filthy rich and have access to all kinds of servants to do your work around your house and property, you can afford to retire at 80 since you are retired for all intents and purposes.

Retiring at 80 is a joke especially to those to have done a lifetime of physical labor and are worn out by age 50 or 60. It is an even more cruel joke to tell people they have to retire at an advanced age and are pushed out 20 or 25 years early and can't find jobs thanks to discrimination.

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