And then to top it ALL off perfectly, the health care you've worked so hard to get, causes a whole bunch of additional health problems. Every time my doc wants to give me a prescription, for example for the nausea which accompanied the vertigo, I told her it's a slippery slope and no thank you, I'll let the nausea go away by itself. Which of course it did.
________________________________ From: Susan <waybac...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:41 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Economy Needs You to Work Past 70 I think that we need to be able to work 1/2 time or 3/4 time at any point in our lives. I think most people would love this option and could have more free time to do lots of the other fun things in life. An added bonus - it would allow more people to have jobs, which we need, especially the younger generation graduating from college and struggling to find jobs.. There just are not enough jobs and needs to have full employment, full time, for all those that want it. So let's have partial employment/job sharing for anyone who wants to work. The reason this is not happening here? The big problem is that once you don't work full time, here in the USA, you don't get health insurance. So the whole idea falls apart unless we can get single payer Medicare-like coverage for all.. Then people would feel freer to make work and life choices and be flexible and could change up their options at different points in their lives. The whole Obamacare thing is not going to work, nice as it sounds. It is just a modification of the current complicated system. Steven Brill's article in TIme nailed it - we are way way overcharged by hospitals (especially nonprofits) and that is what is driving the whole medical fee disaster here. Medicare pays for services at an appropriate rate (about one tenth of what the younger public is charged). Yes 1/10th! Amazing. Theprofit for nonprofit hospitalas is humongous. This then drives everythiing else, including the reason people here try to work fulltime no matter....... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 05/09/2013 12:36 PM, John wrote: > > How many here agree with this proposal? > > > > http://www.cnbc.com/id/100724186?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=100724186%7CAttention%20Boomers:%20US%20Nee > > > > > > 1) Work is not the purpose of life. The wealthy landowners tried to > sell that idea to their serfs so they could lounge around while their > serfs did all the work for little money. > 2) Work is not holy. That's something the kings wanted to convey so you > stayed busy and didn't cook up a coup d'etat against him. > 3) Work is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It's supposed > to be a way to exchanges your services for products or someone else's > services. > 4) There are fewer jobs because less needs to be done. We've automated > a lot of boring jobs that no human should be doing and should automate > more. For instance, except for custom clothing which would be > interesting for someone who likes to do that and not repetitive you > might as well design clothes that can be made entirely by machine. IOW, > do away with those slave labor sweat shops in other countries. > 5) People who love what they could might not mind doing that line of > work until they drop dead. Creative people make up a lot of that group > but society doesn't seem to like people who enjoy their work. They'd > rather hire you for something you hate doing. > 6) Scrap the Christian-Judeo work ethic. It's bullshit anyway according > to what I've already stated. > 7) In a world of 7 billion people there won't be enough work. Stop > adding to the population. We don't need more people and need over the > coming decades and centuries to reduce the population humanely to around > 1 billion. But try to sell that to the folks who hold the purse > strings. Either they want to reduce the population through genocide or > wars. Most of the rich are mentally ill anyway. Who needs a billion > dollars? > 8) Instead begin a leisure society. Reduced hours more leisure. Enjoy > life not work. Stipends for everyone. >
