Youth unemployment is on the rise and logic dictates that it only is going to get worse when the government forces people to retire at an even older age, therefore making available jobs for youth more and more scarce.

They not only make it harder for youth to find work, but penalise them by making it harder to get government support, even though it’s the government’s fault that there are less jobs available. And it’s only going to get worse.

And let’s not forget the older people (especially those in high-pressure jobs) who are forced to work even more years as tired as they are.

Maybe the government is trying to force them into an earlier grave.

— STEVEN TAYLOR,

North Albury