Speak for yourself, Heather.
Posted on 02/10/2005 3:35:11 PM PST by technochick99
You have no right to demand that white women make arrangements for their own retirement.
Elderly white women have an absolute right to the dignity and independence guarenteed to them by having the government forcibly taking money from poor black men (who don't need retirement money, because, after all, they are going to die young anyway).
(/sarcasm)
Unless the economy gets into a prolonged funk, the sheer power of compounded interest over significantly longer ladies' life expectancy [assuming investment in a broad index fund] would make it impossible to lose.
Sexism Lives, I see...
/giggle
Excellent summation!
Hmm, Vanguard total market index or Vanguard 500 are sexist? I just used the accepted terminology, though. All claims to the authors of it.
Just kiddin' ya' on the use of 'broad' in a woman's issues thread!
Married women would be screwed the most. After all, after their husband dies and they get his private account they will really be out of luck!
Thanks for that excellant post...I heard this on one of the talk radio shows and now I have it in print! It really smashes the opposition.
I am sooo angry I paid intothis ridiculous plan for somany years.
Is that true? Do you loose credits if you stop contributing, or just stop accumulating them? I'm not familiar with how it works. Although, and don't take this the wrong way, but in the interest of fairness, why should you get something if you don't contribute? Again, not to disrespect stay at home moms. My wife is one.
Aren't private acounts better, given what this article states, because they can inherit their husbands account, rather than rely on survivor benefits at a reduced rate?
Want to talk about me, want to talk about I, want to talk about number one o-me, o-my what I want, what I like - what I need.
Hold on, every group will now be telling us why letting the government destroy our lives is more important.
Notice they did not say women are better at managing money then men so they can take care of themselves but only the government should do it. Course our wives tell us they are better then us men in this department.
This e-mail I am responding to is brought to you by a selfish and incapapable special interest.
Yes and as more and more choose the voluntary plan then wouldn't those people pay less in taxes? If you are putting money in a private account instead of paying it in taxes then libs would have to be angry,
This fits perfectly an "activists" definition of "reform". It certainly is not a rhetorically neutral definition.
This femenist dingbat, at least, defines the terms in her universe before proceeding.
Perhaps a more universal definition, however, is to change or to modify something so it doesn't crash and burn; so it can continue functioning at all.
Heather is obviously a poor economist. She neglected to mention that men who die prior to retirement leave no Social Security to their wives. With individual retirement accounts, the wife would inherit the savings.
Speak for yourself, Heather.
Well lets see women get better medical care all their life than men so they live longer and that is getting short changed. Maybe we men should demand the care it takes to live longer.
If privatization strikes you as risky, you will retain the option not to select it. When did these women cease to be pro-choice?
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