# Growth down to 1.6%, economy chat ITT.

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**Created:** [September 1, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/growth-down-to-1-6-economy-chat-itt/254264 "2010-09-01T06:43:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Upstate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Upstate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Upstate)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/growth-down-to-1-6-economy-chat-itt/254264/45 "2010-09-02T13:05:14Z")

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> [@Random Picture Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/random-picture-thread/34324/65):
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> What might also have a positive turn is to lower the age for retirement or set an universal age for forced retirement. people working in unions for over 40 years are making a ton more than if the union hired a rookie out of college and honestly what they learned 40 years ago is alot lees than what the new kid fresh out of college knows

I think just the opposite. Right now you have police officers retiring after 20 years at the age of 42 taking home six-figure pensions because they padded the last three years with OT, and they’re going to be collecting that for probably another 42 years. Now you’ve got to pay them their pension AND hire someone new to fill their position? That’s a heavy burden.

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