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You and I will be at a variance. I would like to be able to retire at 55, as it suggested on my contract when I joined, after getting a command at the time that it looked like it would happen for the last 9 years.
Others will feel differently.
The item that we are all over looking on the issue of this forthcoming legislational change is the effect it will have on the school leavers of 2006/7/8/9/10.
As each year passes, people usually retire from their positions throughout the workforce. New people enter the workforce, and take up these positions.
Come late 2006, this will slow down dramatically.
It will be bad for our children or grandchildren.