[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks] OT "Senior Citizen Jobs" at 52

[Suey]

With the recession, I think I am talking worldwide about jobs and about 
the America in general with the insurance. I do not know how European 
social security systems that provide medicare work if one is laid off. I 
do not know if there is an early retirement opportunity as in the states.
My message here is the waste occurring by ignoring the wealth of 
knowledge, culture, skills etc of older people by refusing to employ 
them. Also I see that unemployed people who want to be employed are 
unhappy, which can lead to chain reactions such as depression and health 
issues. I know "Obama" (meaning all governments in general) has enough 
in his bucket right now but somehow this issue must addressed sooner or 
latter. If you close the Chilean mines or General Motors, you get not 
only thousands of unhappy unemployed but their families as well.
You can say - oh, must help the poor. Its not only the poor in this 
case. All levels of society need help when recession hits them severely 
and/or when they cannot obtain proper medical insurance as seen in the 
suicide cases in 1929 in the states. The Chilean fair trade organization 
is a step in the right direction. Thank you I was unaware of that. Got 
that one Stefan? You start knitting sweaters now and send them to me. I 
get them exported to the states through fair trade and all your problems 
are solved :-D ! (If life could be so easy. . . )
Suey

Suzette wrote:
> Are we discussing job creation in America or Chile?
> America buys a fair bit of chilean products - wine being one of my more well
> known and favorite....
>
> There is a Facebook page for Fair trade organizations in Chile
> www.facebook.com/pages/COMPARTE-*Fair*-*Trade*/21375313401<http://www.facebook.com/pages/COMPARTE-Fair-Trade/21375313401>
>
> I think it is very disturbing to see that the very valuable contributions of
> older people are disregarded or not utilized.
> They know how to do things we do not, we are losing skills every day.
> This is why I think it's really great that people in the SCA are so willing
> to share their skills and develop people.
>
I wrote
>      My sister and her husband took early retirement in the 1990's from
> IBM. It was great. They not only received a nice pension but they
> established a private company. Now so many years later my roommte from
> the university thought she had gone for the gold mine of $700 a month
> from Social Security but have nothing in the bank from the companies for
> which she worked all those years. Her husband is in the same boat. They
> are looking for jobs like mad but a resume saying one is 52 does not
> seem to be acceptable. They are water over the dam.
>      The more one thinks about it the more serious this gets. Do these
> people have insurance policies? What will medicare cover for them from
> now on?
>      In Chile some insurance companies will not accept applicants over
> 55. Others discontinue their help when you are over 90.
>      For Stefan's case in particular and other dear friends, I think
> this is a very serious matter which needs your input. In general people
> do not pay for culture. How can we sell our culture to make a living?
> Suey
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