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[quote=Anonymous]GAO just issued a report that 1/3 of the federal workforce will be retirement eligible in 2017.  OPM has for years raised the issue about a the inevitable loss of high level employees in waves as boomers retire.  Faced with this problem, have the boomers who are in the SES developed training programs to get people ready to take over the positions that will be vacated by boomers? No.  Instead, they have implemented policies like "retired annuitants" which allow people to retire and then get rehired to do the same job while collecting their retirement benefits.  The new policy that will be implemented is phased retirement, which will allow folks to still hold full time equivalent spots as they reduce their hours over a period of years until they finally leave (the idea here is that they will share the position with someone while mentoring him/her).

When boomer discuss changed to social security benefits, it is interesting that the changes always take place sufficiently in the future that it will have little impact on boomers but a significant one on those to follow.  When I was in 10th grade (1984) my history teacher told our class that unless something was done, the boomers would exhaust the social security system for the reasons with which we are all familiar.  If my history teacher saw this problem in 1984, shouldn't the boomers have noticed the problem as well and taken some form of remedial action?  Why should they?  The people who will suffer are not them.

It is these me first policies that have made many people think that members of the baby boomer generation think of themselves first and last.

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