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Out for a stroll

Went out walking to enjoy the beautiful weather and started talking with a neighbor who is an unemployed Ph.D. research biologist. He was first laid off by big pharma after lengthy employment at the same company and then he worked 2.5 years with a smaller research company that simply closed its doors without warning right after the first of this year. He's also in touch with similarly well-educated friends who are also losing their jobs in this area because companies don't choose to do their research here or are not going to do new research at all... All the politicians talk about Americans not having skills? Why get advanced degrees when it guarantees unemployment? A lot of our other neighbors are experienced tradesmen--electricians and plumbers--and haven't worked in years. If it is such a sin to be more than 57.5 years old, do you think the powers that be plan to open extermination camps for the aging? Or will they just let older Americans die on the curb of starvat...