re: #244 calochortus

Yes, but I’m not sure what they’d be retiring on. A lot of farming/ranching families want the kids to take over and then they can stay on, doing less, but still being useful.

I’m having a hard time working up sympathy for this. Pretty clearly the son learned from his father. It’s hard to make an argument that these are the sort of people who should be encouraged to keep ranching.

As for what they would retire on, at 70 social security is an option. Hopefully they did the intelligent thing and saved some money over the years. Given that all of my retirement planning has to be done with the assumption that I am unlikely to receive my full social security benefit, if any at all, I have a harder time coming up with sympathy there.