None of your da*m business. BTW, the same goes for race and sexual harrassment laws, and all that other PC crap. Since when has PM been taken over by the PC crowd? These laws impose unbelieveable costs on the American economy at time when it doesn’t need it. If you support these PC tought control laws, blog over at DailyKos and MyDD, where you can navel gaze all you want. The rest of us will get off our butts and work to make America great.

Tell me why I should believe some little kiddie like you who couldn’t make it into med school knows a damn thing about age discrimination law or lawsuits? Next time, why don’t you turn off the stupid television shows and get the kids off your head before you start writing; who knows, you might even make a coherent, evidence-based argument instead of trotting out the same tired party-line crap. Do you have the slightest idea of how many age discrimination suits are filed each year? Who typically wins?

In a truly free market the smart and talented always succeed.

let me know when we have free markets, ok?

meanwhile, when you have nothing to say, don’t blog.

….your age is ‘what’?

Regards,

Chuck(le)

The whiners above who couldn’t cut it in the business world should stop and think whether that is where they belong. They should look into lefty non-profts and government that give a da**.

ALL elderly deserve love and respect .
However, we must seek to realize peoples positive potentials and encourage them to be productive.
Even elderly pensioners have the right to better health assistance so they could recuperate towards productivity. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Even people with dubious past lifestyles have a right to learn, realize, and achieve beyond shortcomings of the past. Public services and employers could gain reciprocally by encouraging and appreciating the elderly, EVEN for a few hours a week !! Good for the economy ! – positive attitude is only way in these harsh times. Encourage others, and be encouraged too !!
Understanding is of the essence.

A Danish ultranationalist extremist politian Glistrup wanted to remove laws that protect against discrimination, vilification, and denigration of special groups. He claimed it was contrary to the ‘freedom of speech’ – which in Danish is termed by freedom of utterance ( in contrast to way of expression or freedom of conscience ).
I wrote to parliament and underlined that freedoms can be only maintained by ensuring responsibility and respect of others, as those laws in essence are to protect ANY form of vilification or demeaning, as GERIAPHOBIA when one may say ‘remove that old man ! ‘ Such an expression is sign of inhumanity.
In the work place, an employer can request someone who can carry coal up a mine shaft, and lift certain machinery, while others can be required to help with meticulous planning and can be subjected to tests where human life can be at play.
It is utterly inhumane to carry out lynch populism and persecution against an eldery in unchartered tasks, specially when an applicant has proven proficiency and capable of working ‘in tandem’ with others. The newer Handicap Conventions even go further to help raise dignity of the disabled so that they can be full fledged members of society.
I have looked into research that proved that hard drugs and unhealthy habits of very young people using crack coke and Ice’ ( – and EVEN certain medications as Paxil ) , can cause damage by causing erroneous replication of DNA strands !
My inference is that DNA damage due to hard drugs condoning, chemicals and bad lifestyle, was FAR WORSE than DNA errors found in healthy aging persons, men, who could have healthy children in later life. The Prophet Abraham was of a very high age when he had his first children, and even more later …. forefathers to great people !
Therefore, good striving people must be allowed to have children, so their lifestruggles be rewarded and defended, while I am frustrated over the lack of campaign attention over the abuse of hard drugs that were the core of Usama bin Ladin’s fundraising in Afghanistan – AND other Jihadists who were often drugged before suicide operations. Today unfortunately, hard drugs are rendering the US economy bancrupt from the INSIDE, as children’s future are jeapardized and destroyed by hard drugs. These have lead to most horrific crimes of all kinds, and unfathomable vast damages to National and World economy !!
I hope these themes could have been discussed during Presidential debates, for they are urgent non-political realities needing to be dealt with.
Elderly need greatest respect be helped towards lifequality, specially those who have a zeal to serve !
In parts of Europe, medicinal control agencies try to forbid simple supplements such as Melatonin, that are invaluable for elderly with parkinsonims, eye problems etc etc.
They even push the elderly into hospice-like homes, and give them strong drugs.
We must all respect and remember great men and women as Helen Keller, President Roosvelt, ( President Teddy Roosvelt ) who statuated respect and dignity, and President Ronald Reagan whose age experience helped break the ice with Soviet President Gorbachev, and removed the Iron curtain !! – for without them, where would we be today ?????????

I had/have a peer/friend who fit that profile of “replaced six months later” in the same position, lower salary. His problem is he got a better paying job with better benefits somewhere else with no travel required.

When I was in my 30′s I couldn’t believe that a company would get rid of their most experience and loyal champions. My older peers and friends just told me “wait, you’ll see.” So I waited in disbelief….until “I saw”.

So I have tried to drum into my 20-something son’s heads the new attitude of “Get yours while you can because the company will try and screw you out of it when you reach 50.” Save now. Plan for early retirement at 50 and your next career. Even if it DOESN’T happen to them, they’ll be in a much better position.

BTW, getting laid off was the best thing that happened (so far) to me. I got a much better paying job as a contractor, working from home, no travel, albeit with NO benefits.