Revolting Retirees

It is true that everyone has their own concern after retirement. Some choose to plan a new job which is more simple and gentle. However, there are retirees, who just want to find their ego, self-worth, or even happiness that they threw away when they work. Those who rule, reign, govern, dictate, bully and preside over us now tell us seniors "we are not economically viable!". For those of us in, or approaching, our senior years and fed up with this steady drip of elitists' propagandaThis book presents a personal antidote to the dark and degenerate mind-set by turning personal adversity into opportunities. -This book is also a distillation of my many years of extensive research, travel, re-training, work and play often in various exotic locations, some of which I found to be more accommodating and suitable for the author's needs at this particular point in his life. -Discover how the author gradually came to see retirement not as a time or mind-set for slowing down or opting out, but as an opportunity to fashion a completely new and purposeful existence.

At the age of 65 I'd had enough of the daily humdrum which had invaded my life and I was ready to throw in the towel. My prevailing mind-set, was leading me into a very dark place of depression, boredom, purposelessness and poverty. To say my future looked bleak as I entered my senior years would be an understatement - all the while the Call of the Wild was gnawing away at my soul or spirit. Finally, and in desperation, I answered that rebellious Call.I had tried to simply accept my situation or to simply suck it up, but this had proven futile.I eventually came to realize I needed a revolution, not so much in a global sense, but on a personal level. I needed to turn my current way of thinking upside down. The old formulas and thought patterns we are encouraged to practice, were not working for me.I needed to think outside the box. I also began to question exactly who the makers of these boxes are, and why we are so eager to enter them? Then the revolutionary thought slowly dawned upon me - do we need these boxes at all? That was five years ago.Today my life is exactly how I wish it to be. And so I invite you to come with me and step out of our not-so-comfortable comfort zones and create new lives full of adventure, new friends, travel, work and so much more. In the process we will reclaim our self-worth, dignity and happiness that many of us have had stripped away by ageism, miss-information, cruel Government austerity policies, thuggery, cultural indifference and the ever-increasing us-versus-them mind set found in most Western nations nowadays. They - those who rule, reign, govern, dictate, bully and preside over us now tell us seniors "we are not economically viable!" For those of us in, or approaching, our senior years and fed up with this steady drip of elitists' propaganda; this book presents a personal antidote to this dark and degenerate mind-set by turning personal adversity into opportunities. This book is also a distillation of my many years of extensive research, travel, re-training, work and play often in various exotic locations, some of which I found to be more accommodating and suitable for my needs at this particular point in my life.It's actually fun. I'm now a very happy and fulfilled senior as a result and maybe this book might speak to you also and help turn your adversities into opportunities too, if given a chance. Discover how I gradually came to see retirement not as a time or mind-set for slowing down or opting out, but as an opportunity to fashion a completely new and purposeful existence. It's not written in the style of your common everyday seniors' self-help book but rather a revolution complete with true real-life adventures calling out for you to follow; in ways that resonate with you personally, and within your means and capabilities. When I boarded that flight out of Australia, stepping out into the great unknown, I had very limited means indeed. I really didn't know where, exactly, I was going but the alternative of remaining within my current mind-set and circumstances was not an option.I have included dozens of valuable resource links to make it so much easier for you to do your own research as well as including around 70 or more photos to further encourage you to turn adversity into boundless opportunities.If the 'Call Of The Wild' is constantly gnawing away at your soul or spirit, then this book is for you to help launch you into an exciting new world full of purpose, new friends and experiences. It's a true real-life work in progress. If necessary you can even do it all on a shoestring budget by simply following in my well-trodden footsteps. Let's distance ourselves from all prevailing mind-sets which don't serve us anymore.Let's regain control of our own destinies.Be a rebel and let's get out of here.

A practical yet humorous guide to aging solo gracefully and achieving a happy retirement. In Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers, certified retirement coach Sara Zeff Geber coins the term “Solo Ager” to refer to the segment of society that either does not have adult children or is single and believes they will be on their own as they grow older. This book explores the path ahead for this group. That includes choices in housing, relationships, legal arrangements, finances, and more. Geber reviews the role of adult children in an aging parent’s world and suggests ways in which Solo Agers can mitigate the absence of adult children by relationship building and rigorous planning for their future. Geber shares her expertise on what constitutes a fulfilling older life and how Solo Agers can maximize their opportunities for financial security, physical health, meaning and purpose in the second half of life, and, finally, planning for the end game. Through real-life stories and anecdotes, the author explores housing choices, relationships, and building a support system. You will learn about: · different levels of care and independence in various types of living arrangements · how to initiate discussions among friends and relatives about end-of-life treatment · “what if” scenarios · who to talk to about legal and financial decisions And it’s not just the Solo Ager that can learn from this book. Financial advisors, elder law and estate attorneys, senior care managers, and others whose clientele is on the far side of sixty will benefit as well.

Bodies in Revolt argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could humanize capitalism by turning employers into care-givers, creating an ethic of care in the workplace. Unlike other feminists, Ruth O'Brien bases her ethics not on benevolence, but rather on self-preservation. She relies on Deleuze's and Guttari's interpretation of Spinoza and Foucault's conception of corporeal resistance to show how a workplace ethic that is neither communitarian nor individualistic can be based upon the rallying cry "one for all and all for one."

The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power from those elites who now exercise it to another elite, namely themselves, who do not. This aspiring elite is of the same race (white), the same class (upper middle and upper), and the same educational background (the best colleges and universities) as those they wish to displace." Wildavsky's bracing work takes a close look at these elites, who probably make up little more than one percent of the population. He sees their common denominator as hostility toward the masses, anti-American attitudes, derision of authority, and a belief in participatory rather than representative politics. The author carries through these themes in a variety of essays on black-white racial relations, social work orientations and black militancy, the politics of budgetary reform, elite and mass trends in the political party system, and the substitution of bureaucratic for democratic modes of advancing the policy process. This work is, in short, vintage Wildavsky: tough minded, spirited, and plain-spoken political analysis. In his new Introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz examines what has changed and what continues to be salient in Wildavsky's line of analysis. Essentially, the report card on The Revolt Against the Masses is that the situation described in these essays has changed somewhat in style but hardly at all in substance. The nuclear shield replaces the ABM treaty, and Afghanistan replaces Vietnam as centers of political gravity-but the same coalition of forces across party and economy still dominate the American political process. The justifiably famous essay on "The Two Presidencies" shows how persistent is the gap between the conflict over domestic priorities and the consensus on foreign policy-and why. This is, in short, a classic text that continues to merit careful study by all those interested in political life. Aaron Wildavsky was, until his death in 1993, professor of political science and public policy at the University of California in Berkeley. He was also director of its Survey Research Center. He served as director of the Russell-Sage Foundation, was a president of the American Political Science Association, and held a number of visiting professorships during his lifetime. Most recently, Transaction has posthumously published Wildavsky's complete essays and papers in five volumes. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt distinguished university professor emeritus at Rutgers, The State University, and longtime friend and associate of Aaron Wildavsky.

Suppose the social fabric tore. Suppose uninformed or misinformed citizens, unmindful of how taxes translate into public services, chose not to support their government; to let the institutions wither away. How could it happen? What might the aftermath look like? With the system in collapse, can Americans restore trust in the miracle of self government? Imagine a complex timepiece, scattered into its' many parts, and no one knows how to put it back together again; the watchmakers long since dead. Can Americans revive the institutions that have been built up over the years from the model of the Founding Father's? How do you rebuild the infrastructure of a modern society? Examine the remarkable thing called 'self-government' by seeing what it would be like should it fail through neglect of its' citizens. Could a small faction seize power while the public is not paying attention? This is a chilling view of an American Insurrection.

Winner of the 2012 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Hundreds of companies have slashed pensions and health coverage for millions of retirees, claiming that a “perfect storm” of stock market losses, aging workers, and spiraling costs have forced them to take drastic measures. But this so-called retirement crisis is no accident. Ellen E. Schultz, an award-winning investigative reporter formerly of The Wall Street Journal, reveals how large employers and the retirement industry have all played a huge and hidden role in the death spiral of American pensions and benefits. A little over a decade ago, pension plans were fat. But companies used slick accounting and dubious loopholes to turn their pension plans into piggy banks, tax shelters, and profit centers. As pensions weakened, companies slashed benefits for workers while doling out gargantuan pensions to their top executives. Drawing on original analysis of company data, government filings, and confidential memos, Schultz uncovers decades of widespread deception during which employers exaggerated their retiree burdens while tricking employees, misleading shareholders, and lobbying for taxpayer handouts.