Work smile die

The current drive by Western governments to get the chronologically challenged back to work has manifested itself here in France where the government has eased rules preventing old people from returning to the workplace. The medai guard dogs are happy to play their role. On the main TV2 channel, they cut to a story of a happy looking sixty year old in Britain who is earning his keep in a plumbing business. They interview other spritely looking OAP's who confess in a chipper manner that yes they've had to take a cut in salary but that's the way it is.

What's definitely not mentioned is why these people have to keep working so late on in their lives. The answer is simple and so has to be effaced. They work because they have no choice. Professor of the Obvious has recently written a paper on it, which was published recently in a Ukranian Folk Dancing journal. The old have to work because all the pension money has been blown away and the state pensions are virtually worthless. No one wants to work past 60 but this is part of the process of getting everyone used to providing for their own old age or face the prospect of working until they drop dead. If it had been put like that - there might have been some people on the demo tomorrow.