What happens when the Baby Boomers retire

by Ted Sherman

They do what every other generation of retirees has done ... move in with their adult kids and drive them insane. Seriously, like every other generation, some intelligent Baby Boomers will have put together an adequate eno...read more

by Charles Baron

Aside from sixty-year old men still thinking that wearing penny loafers without socks looks good, the retirement of the baby-boomers will fulfill Herbert Hoover's prediction that it would take the New Deal and the welfare ...read more

by Rebecca Ashby

Carpe Diem So what is life but a big Catch 22? You think that you have a handle on what's happening and then there are those high expectations which somehow never get met. I went to hear some jazz tonight but it just ...read more

by Mark Luke

I hope you have a spare $400,000 laying around because that's your share of the US government debt. The US government is bankrupt to the tune of $58 trillion, and in order to pay off that debt, every household in America w...read more

by Billy Belcher

What problems do we face as a nation when baby boomers decide to retire is a great question. However, I'm not sure many baby boomers will retire when the time comes because of rising costs of health care, gas, groceries, a...read more

by Bekjan

America could be host to over 76 million retirement parties in the next thirty years and while that may sound exciting, or even a tad trivial, it's what's had economists scrambling for answers for years now. The problem ...read more

by Stephen Wilson

What happens when the Baby Boomers retire? A. America will have a shortfall of workers. B. Baby boomers won't retire; they'll work part-time or job share. There will be no sudden drop off of employees. Who can affor...read more

by Older But Wiser

I am one of those Baby Boomers who just retired(a year ago) and have to hope Social Security will be there for me as long as I need it. My savings will see me through but, since I paid in to Social Security all those year...read more

by David Newcomb

Baby Boomers are not the end all or the be all of American society. When examined, the Baby Boom generation contributed much to the fabric of our times and recent history. However, most of it comes up in negative numbers...read more

by Fred Tolleson

When the baby boomer's retire this country will go through a 30 years long process of adjusting to this phenomenon. First of all, when the Boomer retirement begins is somewhat of a mystery since so many people consider ...read more

by Diana Claude

The scenes in New Orleans of homeless people dying in the streets is just a foreshadow of what will happen when the Baby -Boomers begin to retire. It is all-ready beginning to happen, with more and more of the mentally ill...read more

by William Ryals

The baby boomers were the manifestation of the relief and joy that followed the end of world war II and the Korean conflict. The generation that fought these wars was, for the first time, able to look to the future with so...read more

by Larry Clifton

As boomers begin retiring, the country's entitlement programs will buckle and enormous spending cuts will have to be implemented to keep Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare solvent. At the same time, the age at which a...read more

by Adam Smith

For the people who aren't too fond of history, after world war two, quite possibly the best generation in human history, came the baby boomers, by far the worst. They ruined the Vietnam war, did copious amounts of drugs an...read more