It can be financially astounding in terms of retirement and health benefits. You need more citizen soldiers rather than professionals.

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

The American Benefits Council, representing companies that either directly sponsor or provide services to retirement and health plans covering more than 100 million Americans, believes that it is critical that pension reform legislation be enacted this year,

The railroads were very aware that this could help them wriggle out of a lot of health and welfare benefits.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.