Baby Boomers taking forever to retire? Reason for tight job market?
Seriously Baby Boomers aren't retiring. They are hogging all the good jobs in America. I look in the paper and all I see is customer service jobs and sales jobs .........DEPRESSING. Should the government set a mandatory retirement age?
Public Comments
- No it shouldn't. They have more right to that job than you do, they have worked their way up. They are probably still putting junior through college.
- I don't think they are hogging the good jobs - perhaps you aren't either pursuing the right training/education for them, or aren't looking in the right place - the paper is not the best place to look for higher end jobs. Go to a good school, get a degree in business, engineering or medical, and the jobs will come. If you want the government to set a mandatory retirement age, just think that someday you will hit that age as well. Plus, if you make all the older people retire, you will have to pay more FICA and medicare taxes to pay for them...
- The retirement age is slowly increasing to the mid-seventy's. People are living lots longer and with healthier lifestyles. They are more active with each generation, and not only want to continue to contribute, but will have to work to support themselves as the younger generation will be/is incapable of generating enough tax revenue to retire them all with the lifestyle they have become accustomed to. Remember, when social security was adopted in the USA, the retirement age was 65, but the average lifespan of a male worker was someplace in the late forty's. As a result, the SS system worked fine for a long time. Now, not only is SS used to fund many more additional things other then retirement, our lifespans are much longer so adjustments are needed.
