I see old people 2

[McGiver]

as security guards.

this to me makes no sense.  and if i was a person with a lean towards criminal activity, then i would certainly:
dine and dash-like they'd even catch my fat ass.
Grab and Go- they look like old drunks anyways, so i am sure i can buy them off with a coupla beers, even if theyt were to catch me.
ask my friends to form a mob- what the hell is the old geezer going to do about a group of unsightly white people

[McGiver]

and onother thing.

these people are retirement aged.? They shouldn't have to work anyways.

Whatever happened to the Great Promise, which was supposed to be social security.

should we do the math?

i have worked for 20 years avg 50 k per @ 6.2% towards social security, each year, religiously.? = $161,290.32

when i was 17 the stock market had the Big crash and was down to around 700.
last i checked it was at around 11,000.
that is 1600 percent.? compounded yearly, my money alone should be worth several million dollars.? several million dollars can still allow a person to live comfortably.? coupled with the fact that a home should already be paid off (bought 30 yrs ago for about 23K, now worth 3/4 million).

another factor to consider is that i calculated my wages per year at my first 20 years of work.? i expect my last 20 years of work to be 3 or 4 times that per year.? and we are considering old people for which it was during their best earning years..

even if you were to take the wages for 25k avg over the past twenty years and the inflation in home prices, these people should still have a couple of million each.

what is happening to all the social security money?? why are these people having to work?
i understand that there are exceptions, but the thing is that millions of americans who are of retirement age are still working part time.? some because it fills their days, but for many its because they have to.

its a shame. they have already done their part. were all screwed someday. a few will have it all, and the people that actually toiled away and creating all that wealth, will not be shown the appreciation they so richly deserve.

greedy elite, and shameful government.

[Nomaken]

They hire things which are technically guards for better insurance rates probably.

[McGiver]

that was actually just an intro to get people thinking how pathetic old people are.

my real purpose was the state that old people are forced to survive.  i think its a crock of shit.
i think the great promise is the great scam.  and i am fed up.

but i guess my method really didn't work.


ps
i would raise their insurance premium  if they hired an old person to be security.  the geezer is likely to have a stroke and die at work.

[purposefulinsanity]

I see your point although I don't think you can assume that they're all working just because they have to- you've already said yourself you wouldn't want to retire, some must feel the same way.  But yeah it sucks that people are having to work at an age when they should have retired simply to survive.

[McGiver]

i understand that there are exceptions, but the thing is that millions of americans who are of retirement age are still working part time.  some because it fills their days, but for many its because they have to.

i agree.

[Silk]

You should see some of the greeters at Walmart. They're usually in their seventies and up.

[Adam]

I agree. Very many old peoples

[SleepyDragon]

i understand that there are exceptions, but the thing is that millions of americans who are of retirement age are still working part time.  some because it fills their days, but for many its because they have to.

i agree.

Here he is agreeing with himself! But let it go, because he makes a good point. Some of us would prefer not  to see those unsightly old folks cluttering up the landscape, instead of staying in their retirement gulags where they belong. But retirement gulags are boring and ultimately fatal. Better to get out and mingle, earn a little extra scratch, and do something useful with your day than sit at home and drink yourself to death.

['andersom']

My favourite villagers are some oldies, past any pretence and all. Just taking life as it is, and making the most of it.

[Al Swearegen]

Yes the young complain about the old and once they become old themselves, their approach to oldies softens
Funny that.
Think when you were a kid what constituted "old". Hilarious.