"To begin, it is an immediate, and usually irrevocable, step into second-class citizenship. Once retired, you are one with blacks, Hispanics, the handicapped, homosexuals, jailbirds, the insane, the retarded, children and women: America's Third World hordes. America doesn't like oldpeople, and retired people are old people, whether they are 45, 55 or 65. old people clutter up the landscape. Their families do't want them. Their communities do't want them. They are a nightmare vision of everyone's future. They are of interest mainly to doctors and hospitals, real-estate brokers and travel agents--but not as people, rather as bodies from whom some final payment can still be exacted..."
"The First Step to the Cemetery" by Kenneth Bernard Newsweek, February 22, 1982
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