Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Do you mean e.g. 9 Austerity Plans for Greece and an even bigger debt than when it all started?
Well yes, but that also applies to "borrow to pay for everything and it won't cause a debt crisis."

"France lowers the retirement age when it should go up" Why it should go up?" To kill people before retirement as it is happening in the 8 European Countries that just did it? That is a solution to resolve the pension, I grant you this. But for the youth unemployment, I doubt.
Of course 6 on 10 of the + 60 are yet out of job due to illness and employment. So to postpone retirement is just done in order to cut on cost, not because "we live longer so we have to work longer". Welcome in the Liberal? Capitalist Financial world where Profits trump Humans.
We lived longer because we stop to work earlier but apparently it is not allowed to live old and Healthy for the average person.
When people often live to 100 a retirement age of 60 means those people spend 60% of their lives on welfare as either juvaniles or pensioners. A retirement age of 70 makes that 50%.

Not everybody lives to retirement - some people have heart attack at 50 or die of cancer at 20, drawing your pension is not an automatic right. The pension is just there to support you once you can no longer support yourself and most people CAN still support themselves at 70, and certainly at 65.