On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:47:19 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-07-19 9:09 AM, Gary wrote:
>> On 7/19/2017 8:57 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>> Wrong, Dave.
>> Seems to me that they offered you an early retirement just to get rid of
>> you.
>>
>
>Says he man who is marginally employed long past the age where I was
>able to retire with a full pension. The government I worked for wanted
>to reduce the size of the public service, so they worked out a deal that
>included dropping our retirement qualification from a 90 factor to 80,
>so I was able to retire at the age of 53, and with a pension that is
>likely more than you could dream of earning on a record year.

Flaunting your money. Only North-Americans.