Jim Demint thinks we need to increase the age of retirement. I imagine that, like Donald Rumsfeld who didn't think making someone stand on their feet all day was torture, Jim Demint can't conceive that some of us are just hoping to make it to the current retirement age, which is scheduled to start creeping upwards in a few years anyway.
I believe Jim Demint loves his job, and can't even imagine not working. I'll bet he goes to work even when he has the sniffles, and probably even when his kids have the sniffles.
Jim Demint probably works harder during his vacations than George W. Bush did, and so why should any of us complain about doing those odds and ends repair jobs that have been piling up those 50 weeks we've been working?
Jim Demint doesn't whine. Except about whiners. You know, like those people who are collecting all those unemployment handouts, instead of just getting up and getting a job. People who can't get health insurance because they're already sick, and expect the government to make insurance companies, for God's sake, insure them. People whose college tuition has gone up again and have to drop out of school -- hey, why should the government subsidize your education?
Jim Demint did not come from wealth. And here he is, with a good job with health care, vacation, and retirement pay. He really believes that if he could do it, anybody can.
I believe that, too. I believe that if the voters of South Carolina are tired of having Jim Demint whittle away the programs that protect us and our families, we can elect Alvin Greene, and he will get us back on our feet.
And give Jim Demint an early retirement.
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