Reply #1: For that age group, suicide is an option whose time has come. [View All]

[truedelphi]

Jobs are overseas.

Unemployment lasts only so long.

Interviewers tell applicants to their faces "We can hire younger workers" or "We would like to hire you, you have the experience - but you'd up our health insurance premiums."

Cost of heating going sky high means a more difficult choice than ever - the medications, the food or the utilities. Being without work, you can only afford one and one half of those three items.

Part time work, which used to save many a soul when times were tough, is no longer an option - since it costs a fortune to drive to work, you need at least eight hours of pay when you get there.

MediCare is still ten to fifteen years away - and probably going to be pushed back even further away over the next decade. The crowd that is now fifty might be the first group of workers to never ever get to retire, unless they get too sick or suicide.