Grab and Go.

This discussion -- amongst aging, allegedly fiscal conservative commenters over at the althouse blog, kinda cracks me up, were it not so sad.

Did you ever wonder how so many folks there have time to talk away, criticising the welfare state and going on and on about how independent they are?

Turns out ... they're all retiring early to grab their social security benefits while the grabbings good.  The hypocrisy of not realising that now they are permanently on the government payroll kills me.  You think they'd at least have the decency to cash the checks, shut their mouths, and pretend they're doing something productive until age 65, at least.

No, carping in comments sections all weekday doesn't count.

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Myself?  I like aging Boomers who are still doing productive work for society every day.  We need good talent, and hard workers, now more than ever out here...  

The generations still coming up, in my humble opinion, haven't been trained by family or the real world of hard knocks to fix, sustain, cover and create what our society will need in coming years.  (Too many were simply plunked in front of the tv, and live passively, to understand others and what is needed to make the world run.)

Especially when the workers of tomorrow will be expected to carry the burden of all these loud, still active (and capable of working), early retired Boomers.

I wonder though -- if professor althouse grabs what she can get and goes, overall will the taxpayers win if a new professor can be hired to do the same ... "work" (and then some) at a much lower rate of compensation?   Good riddance.