Originally Posted by
max8222
Your anger is misdirected. The ones that are pushing this are the politicians and a few pilots. The few pilots are not influencing age 67 change. It is the public crying about lost or poor service which the airline management blames on a lack of pilots.
So the politicians can look like they are actually helping out the public and keeping some pilits off SS a few more years.
Calling senior pilots gramps or saying they need to work more because of ex wives, boats or planes or poor planning is not going to get you anywhere.
You're correct. And you are not following the groupthink in this echo chamber.
I have made no effort to contact my representatives either in favor or against age 67. I have done nothing to support or oppose an age change. That doesn't matter; my problem is that like you, I'm just telling everyone the extremely likely outcome which is that the retirement age will change to 67.
They'll use the safety/science argument, but now that I've pointed out the elevated coronary risk of 50-60 year olds - you know, science - they focus on cognitive decline. Never mind that anyone who's studied cognitive decline would know that there's no inexpensive or reliable way to determine cognitive decline. No science, but that doesn't matter to them. Because we're all selfish pricks arguing for what will benefit us.
To be clear for everyone, I'm not arguing for or against an age change; I'm agnostic on hte subject. I am simply stating the obvious on the sugject.