Dear Editor:
Re: Silence the Chirping Over Double Dipping, Jan. 14 Mailbox
While I would agree with letter-writer Nick Bryant on his first point — “every career job these days contributes money to a pension plan” — and even his second point — “an employee is permitted to draw on their hard earned pension or RRSP money,” — I have to take issue with his third point “people can and often do, work well into their 60s and 70s, earning a full salary doing what they have become masters at.”
If you have had the opportunity to work at a fulfilling and rewarding job and been smart enough to ensure financial health for your life after paid employment, you should be in a position to “continue to be a productive member of society” by volunteering for one of the many worthwhile causes out there that could use those valuable skills learned on the job.
Just think — if everyone felt like Nick Bryant, you would not have had the opportunity of your job and its “hard-earned pension” in the first place.
The next generation deserve the chance too.
J. M. Knee
North Vancouver
