and telling us how wonderful it would be if we would just "save" xxxx amount of dollars every paycheck and then retire at a decent age with all this money.
The trick was "saving" when you are already working at the low end of the salary range for people working there. Often they had spouses who worked in for profit organizations and would support them with lots more money than if they were a single worker. If you didn't have that kind of support you just could never retire or you could retire and get a part time job.
My husband, luckily, had generous retirement benefits from both his state job and a municipal job when he retired. My mother died and left me her entire estate (my only sibling had pre-deceased her. And THAT was the ONLY way I could retire, which I promptly did at age 67 and 4 months when I could get a slightly higher benefit level.
And don't get me started on the awful age discrimination we faced at that time. They'd hire you to do an impossible job and when you failed to meet their unrealistic demands, you were fired and replaced by someone younger.
DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!
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