Well now we have the French getting all frothy about the increase in the retirement age. Following on the heels of the Greeks and the Spanish ... who'll be next? Weren't they intelligent enough to see that this was inevitable?
Firstly the concept of a mandatory retirement age is only really attractive to government and other similar bureaucratic institutions. For ambitious working people with a sense of worth and ambition forced retirement is an insult - and simply discrimination based on age!
Retirement should be a state of achievement not some arbitrary age of right - the right to be a non value adding consumer of resources paid for by the rest of society.
The politicians of the past certainly made a mess of things ... the ones today have no option but to get it right.
For more on this go to Successful-Retirement.com
