They should be reducing the Soc Sec age to 50 for retirement. No jobs and G Will wants it at 74.

[hunter]

25. I didn't say I'd buy you airline tickets or a car.

But you might live in a community where you don't need a car, you wouldn't have to worry about medical bills, and you'd have no fear of homelessness or hunger if you lost your job.

I think generous retirement benefits, welfare, public works projects, and public education should compete directly with shitty employers. Any Wal-Mart greeter ought to be able to say, fuck this, I'm retired. Any kid working for an evil boss in a fast food place ought to be able to say, fuck this, I'm going back to school. Any person feeling trapped in a cubicle with a phone, a computer terminal, and impossible deadlines, ought to be able to say, fuck this, I'm going to join a trail crew at a National Park. A person working in a warehouse, picking lettuce or strawberries, any labor that wears a body out, ought to be paid well when they are young and strong, and have the ability to walk away and do something else when their joints start to scream.

Our consumer economy is going to die whatever we do. Our humanity doesn't have to die with it. The U.S.A is rapidly becoming a plutocracy. It doesn't have to be that way.