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About LinkBackshow can you justify that?? reduced to what?Originally Posted by Risteard
how can you justify that?? reduced to what?
Ireland interests are best secured within a more dynamic EU. Vote YES to Lisbon.
My gut feeling is that it should be reduced. Well, for a start, isn't increased leisure time the aim of working, both as individuals and collectively? I can't believe that the human race is striving towards longer working lives; it's more a case of not organising pension provision properly.how can you justify that?? reduced to what?
As for 'reduced to what?' surely it should be a gradual reduction? I'm not sure where it should stop: that depends upon the collective contribution to supporting whatever services are necessary but I would think around 58 would be a lower limit.
What do posters believe would happen - both negative and positive effects - if the retirement age were dropped to 64 as from January 2006? Then to 63 as from January 2007 and so on?
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when creating them
Well the government would become incapable of paying all those pensions pretty quickly. Society would crumble and gangs of road warriors would cruise the countryside raping and pillaging.
On the plus side geraghd (I'm not paying for old people to sit on their asses when they are more than capable of working) might suffer head explosion.
Give it a go I say.
...but not if pensions and services were organised properly. One of the problems of course is that up to about the age of, I dunno, 40? most people don't want to think about pensions and so don't want to contribute that much if they can help it.Well the government would become incapable of paying all those pensions pretty quickly.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when creating them
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