John Shaw: “We need them. It is not only what they are entitled to. We need them in the workforce. There is so much talent that we…”

“We need them. It is not only what they are entitled to. We need them in the workforce. There is so much talent that we have lost. Go into the hospitals today, go down the corridors, see the age of the nurses that are about to retire. When the baby boomers come through and when they start using the hospitals more, who is going to be there to take care of them? We have a shortage of nurses in this country. The school teachers, some of the greatest teachers that we have are age 65 and older. We need to keep them in the workplace to train our kids. On a construction job, the supervisors are older people and they are there to train the apprentice, the young people coming in. We need to pass these skills down. It is wrong when people are living longer, enjoying life more, want to work or even have to work that we come back and penalize them. That is just so wrong. It is so wrong. We talked earlier about class warfare. What about this one? For so long, if you were wealthy, if you had stocks and bonds, if you had real estate, if you had income that was not what we call earned income, that is stuff that you actually earn by working, you were not penalized. But if you were a working person, whether you had to work or just wanted to work, you were penalized. What kind of class warfare is that? We are getting rid of that. We are getting rid of that.”