Htown Harry
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An editorial by Andrew Yarrow ran in the Baltimore Sun a few weeks ago. I saw it today when it was rerun in a Texas paper. It begins:
"When I hear my fellow baby boomers gleefully talk about their elaborate plans to retire ASAP, head for the Tuscan hills, or otherwise continue their lifelong quest for "self-actualization," I have to bite my tongue.
It's not that I'm all work and no play. But there's just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic."
I'm sure some here will say "thems is fightin' words". Me, I just found his whole argument an illogical house of cards. To the point of being kinda funny...
Early retirement selfish, unpatriotic -- Wages and Pensions, Herb Kohl -- baltimoresun.com
"When I hear my fellow baby boomers gleefully talk about their elaborate plans to retire ASAP, head for the Tuscan hills, or otherwise continue their lifelong quest for "self-actualization," I have to bite my tongue.
It's not that I'm all work and no play. But there's just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic."
I'm sure some here will say "thems is fightin' words". Me, I just found his whole argument an illogical house of cards. To the point of being kinda funny...
Early retirement selfish, unpatriotic -- Wages and Pensions, Herb Kohl -- baltimoresun.com