France Drops State Pension Age To 60

[djv8ga]

What a thing of beauty.
http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/06/07/fr...money|DL_4_img

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

What a thing of beauty.
http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/06/07/fr...money|DL_4_img

Heck, I beat them all. I retired at 58.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Heck, I beat them all. I retired at 58.

L'enfant probably had something to do with it...

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

L'enfant probably had something to do with it...

Mais oui.

[Oerets]

Well will it not create jobs?



Barney

[Boreas]

This is a very small step in the right direction. It's only a 2year decrease, from 62 to 60, and applies only to workers who began their working lives when they were teenagers.

This is actually a very wise policy at a time when unemployment is high and the workers facing retirement are members of the "Baby Boom" cohort. Moving some of them toward a somewhat earlier retirement simply makes room for younger workers who are now having a hard time finding a job.

John

[BlueStreak]

We should do the same here, and beat the tar out of anyone who complains about it. Actually, here it should be 55, as we have more billionaires to confiscate the money from.

Dave

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

We should do the same here,

Dave

We do in the public sector. All the cops and firemen retire well before 60 and work another job. Teaches can retire also but make so much and have so much time off anyway then tend to not.

The disconnect is between the private union folks and the public union folks.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by noonereal

We do in the public sector. All the cops and firemen retire well before 60 and work another job. Teaches can retire also but make so much and have so much time off anyway then tend to not.

The disconnect is between the private union folks and the public union folks.

And someone is out to kill that as fast as they can, using the argument that if one group of workers lives are miserable, then everyone must share the misery. Well, except the rich folk, of course. We give them the savings, as we spit-shine their shoes and beg them to be good massas..........

[merrylander]

Sure raise the retirement age - easy to say if all you do is ride a desk. Bit different if you do physical work. As good as my health is I would have made a lousy fireman at 65.

The funny thing is having some time on my hands a few days ago I did a search on public sector salaries. Did not see very many six figure ones.