Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Work 'til we're 67?


Colebatch: "A higher pension age, and a longer working life, are inevitable side effects of people living longer and healthier lives. That's what we want. Let's stop the whingeing and accept it."

Gittins: "We simply can't design an economy-wide pension system for the 21st century around the peculiar needs of an ever-diminishing minority of manual labourers."