I'm not sure I understand why we need to increase the retirement age when we seem to have a youth unemployment problem.  Is this really to promote growth or just to avoid paying seniors any benefits for a longer time.  It would be nice if these guys had to eat their own cooking.  They don't have to wait to collect their nice big pensions.  They don't have to try to live off their savings with interest rates around 0%.  All this stuff is good for the masses but not for them.  Maybe they need to start listening to someone other than the economists who seem to have really lost their way.