What Retirement in the United States Used to Mean

I heard on an independent news channel this quote from warmonger and heartless politician, Nikki Haley:

“…but what we do know is that 65 is way too low. And we need to increase that. We need to do that according to life expectancy.”

So basically you’re saying you want us to work ourselves into our sunset years, then die.

Europeans would be horrified by what she said.

Retirement in this country was never about working until you drop dead. I remember a time throughout my life it was understood that retirement was about being done with all the years of working at a job and having time for relaxing, perhaps doing some volunteer work, spending time with your spouse, family, grandchildren, maybe taking a well-deserved vacation and just LIVING.

Guess I’m old fashioned…

2 thoughts on “What Retirement in the United States Used to Mean

  1. Not sure if Haley is completely out of touch or drowning in privilege. Work until 70? Tell that to a coal miner or a railroad worker or any manual laborer. Outrageous. In a society where capitalism is everything, we are not human beings, but a commodity to be used to produce money for the wealthy.

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