[QUOTE=Robbie;20602613][QUOTE=slapass;20602399]The baby boomer bump is right there. They are turning 55 as we speak. So it is pumping up the age category.
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Baby Boomers are children born when WW2 let out up and all the soldiers came home and started fucking and they extended the years of calling them baby boomers until 1964.
My mom is a baby boomer. She is 70 years old. I'm a baby boomer. I'm 53.
I'm thinking that the majority of baby boomers who thought they might be retiring at 65 probably changed when the economy collapsed and they lost their savings (and in many cases their homes).
And people in their 50's are in the prime years of their earning potential.
Common sense tells you that when jobs aren't available...but the govt. is handing out money if you are unemployed, then you simply stop looking for work.
And common sense also says that if the economy were to start kicking ass again and true high paying jobs (not minimum wage jobs) were available and the govt. STOPPED handing out money to able bodied people...then those people would go back to work.
I think we are all over-thinking this. The answer is: Jobs.
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You are telling us we are over thinking this, and then demand "jobs", while the unemployment rate is 5.1%.
The economy is fine. The economy is exactly where we had hoped it would be after the recession.
Even the GOP has given up on saying the economy is bad.