Pensioners.

We're all retired.

In the US, retirees tend to vote more than the young.

Finally, pensioners have time in their hands, which they dedicate to organize political activities in their own interest.

Dramatically lower share prices and a 35 fall in home prices reduced household wealth by 14 trillion, a loss equal to 140 of annual disposable income.

Individuals now have to save more to prepare for retirement, and retirees have less wealth to spend.

Many seniors are likely collecting cardboards because they want some exercise, desire independence AND so they can survive.

Nearly half of the Japanese population is either retired or near retirement age, and they worked very hard to achieve a high level of comfort.

Two examples many trade union leaders in Italy are retirees, and retirees account for the largest proportion of the members of the most powerful and militant union, the CGIL.

Taxpayers end up paying for these exposures, as do retirees and others who rely on returns from their savings.

According to a recent poll , up to 46 percent of Ukrainians feel nostalgic for the USSR, most of them being pensioners, as well as residents of Eastern and Southern regions of the country.

As a result, most working individuals reduced the amount that they saved for their retirement, and retirees were able to increase their spending.

And there would be other compensations German pensioners could retire to Spain and live like kings, helping Spanish real estate to recover.

Young people in the US who opt for it would see most of the traditional pension benefit replaced when they retire decades from now with proceeds from personal accounts that they would be free to allocate among a range of investments, including stocks. Whatever traditional benefit remains would not be enough to live on retirees would be at the mercy of the markets for the bulk of their income.

Whatever traditional benefit remains would not be enough to live on retirees would be at the mercy of the markets for the bulk of their income.

And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.

Pensioners are among the most powerful lobbies in a democracy, and politicians are loath to confront them on so fundamental an issue.

Often people that make this comment don t realize that I have volunteered specifically for the local Greek people in a polyclinic where pensioners and the underprivileged could access healthcare and medication.

Governments must continue to pay benefits to today s pensioners, and they can do so only by borrowing money to replace the revenues that tomorrow s pensioners are now diverting to personal insurance schemes.

At the same time, more than 40 of Germany s adult population (pensioners, social welfare recipients, unemployed, accident victims, students) receives some form of state transfer income, especially those in eastern Germany, while the burden of taxes and social security contributions on those in employment is high.

In the long run, policymakers will have to explain to their people that they cannot have economic prosperity, a high level of social security, and a population in which pensioners place a growing burden on the economically active.

If personal pension accounts or provident funds are invested in GDP linked bonds, the payments that retirees receive in 25 years will reflect the growth rate of the economy and that of the tax base to that date, which all makes good sense.

HZ When I was working on Christmas Island in 2014 and I was headed to Greece for a holiday, I felt the need to use my skills as there were reports of Greek people suffering (particularly pensioners) in the Greek financial crisis.