What a myopic, petty, shortsighted bunch of crybabies we are.
I have to say, enginefireleft, that the only crybabies I have seen are the ones who feel they need to stay past sixty - I've heard: "but I got cleaned out in a divorce", "lost a ton of money in the markets" (this particular genius tried to corner the market in beanie-babies!!), "joined the airline a bit later and didn't get promoted until I was fifty-one" (conveniently ignoring the fact that he had deliberately bypassed his first promotion opportunity on the DC9), "had my children a bit later in life and have university tuition bills to pay". And then there are of course what I call the ego boys: four gold stripes and a widebody airplane make them a somebody. After listening to all these crybaby stories over the last few years, I am left with one thought: What makes your crybaby story any more important than anyone else's?
No, enginefireleft, there isn't any crying from the FTYD opponents, just a well-developed feeling that it is somehow latently unfair for an individual to make it to the top of the pyramid, solely by virtue of the fact that hundreds retired gracefully ahead of him, only to have this same individual start (usually in his last few years before age 60) crying that his civil rights are being trampled on.
The attempts of Ray and his followers to intellectualize a position which is essentially one of unmitigated greed and ego is nauseating.
Taco