Reply #17: I knew I'd get one of these...!

[Bigmack]

How many 70 year old teachers do you know? How many 70 year old teachers have what it takes for a High School classroom... 33 kids 5 times a day? How many 70 year old teachers do you know who could handle a (shudder) Middle School classroom?

Your grandparents worked into their 70's and 80's... good for them. My paternal grandparents killed themselves with work in the big timber before their 70's. My maternal grandparents had a stump farm and worked until they died. My point is, not everybody finds pleasure, strength, and meaning in their work after 60.

When I say the jobs need to go to younger people, I mean the ones with families to support and careers to build... and those jobs just ain't happenin'.

I propose a society where old people can work if they can and want to, and where young people have a future.

Not such a radical concept.... except in the Global Trade world the US has joined.