Dear John: Please weigh the pros and cons of my proposal.
I propose that all wage earners or self-employed individuals (except physicians and medical researchers) resign their positions at age 72 and let the next generation move into the workplace.
They will do this to help the country by helping the unemployed and the next generation of incoming workers.
Wouldn’t this initiative help to steer the country onto a new level of prosperity? Thanks for your attention. M.M.
Dear M.M. This creates other problems.
Social Security is already in trouble. And if we force people to quit their jobs at 72, more people will start collecting their retirement benefits. And that’ll bankrupt the system even more quickly.
But there’s another way to achieve the same results with fewer of the problems: Euthanize people when they reach 72. Or, if you want more jobs, do it at 70. I’d also propose getting rid of our politicians at a much earlier age — how old is Chris Christie right now? Let’s give him one more year before he’s gone.
If you do it my way, we open up the jobs and don’t have to pay them Social Security benefits.
I’m only kidding! Really, I think I’m only kidding!
The other problem is that nobody ever has enough money in today’s society. We never know when health-care costs will smack us, when our kids will need help, when the furnace in our house will break or when Sony will come out with a much larger TV that we covet.
And why, I have to ask, aren’t journalists on your preferred list of people who wouldn’t have to give up their jobs? What, you don’t like columnists for some reason? Maybe that’s really why I don’t like your proposal.
Dear John: [I’m writing] in response to your recent column about being able to use dollars in Mexico.
I was in Cancun, Mexico, from March 22 to March 26 and could not purchase anything with American dollars in the hotel. I had to show my passport to buy pesos.
I ran into the same situation in the local movies. No American dollars — only credit cards. And the same situation [applied] in two different malls.
The explanation given was the constant changing of the exchange rate and the influx of counterfeit American dollars. N.H.
Dear N.H. Another reader wrote in to say there were stories about the American dollar being rejected in other countries as well. (Two people I had contacted who travel a lot said they hadn’t experienced that.)
Thanks for giving me the other side of the story.
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