My grandfather is 76 years old. He still works almost every day. It's not that they can't work, it that his job allows him to work rather than being construction or something physical. If he had developed Parkison's or something like that, then no, he wouldn't be able to work.
He however doesn't need to work because being an accountant makes enough money to raise *6* kids and still save something. If he was a librarian or a gas station attendant or something like that he wouldn't have been able to save the money. The problem isn't that people then didn't save, it's that the people that were able to did and the people that couldn't can't make it on SS because they can't pay for their medicine and food.
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:11 am (UTC)He however doesn't need to work because being an accountant makes enough money to raise *6* kids and still save something. If he was a librarian or a gas station attendant or something like that he wouldn't have been able to save the money. The problem isn't that people then didn't save, it's that the people that were able to did and the people that couldn't can't make it on SS because they can't pay for their medicine and food.