YES! It would open up tons of jobs for younger people.
92%
NO! We can’t afford it as people are living longer.
8%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
People should be able to retire at 55 with full pension, I see eurpoeans on occasion, they are retired, and in their 50's retirement should be for enjoying the rest of your life after working for many years, not retire all broken up, sick, and a life of poverty only to die a few years later, I have seen that situation many times, if they make it that far.
The problem now is that once you get over 50, employers don't want you unless your skilled in some scarce but high demand disipline. Too many jobs have been automated, outsourced or eliminated altogether. we have too many people for the available jobs.
We must raise tariffs, end all free trade agreements & stop TPP as "free trade" has been proven to be a job killer here, raise taxes on the rich & corporations who are not paying their fair share or nothing at all & end ALL our dam WARS & occupations.
We must also end all immigration. It's the hight of supidity to keep importing low skill people when our citizens can't find a job at a living wage & the mininum wage is much too low.
END WARS, ALL OF THEM, and get off fossil fuels and go green.