[USS Alaska]

As a retired, mid-60s and financially independent geezer, I'm going to die before this really is a disaster, but I'm very concerned {Tim} for my children and grandchildren.

I've got no real solution for the medicare/SS problem for the future, so I'm trying to built my estate for them, so that when the crap hits the fan, they will have enough to sustain themselves.

I know it's selfish, but since I can't save the world, I'll do the best I can for my family.

I could have saved more people, but the gummit took too much of my money via taxes, so it's up to the gummit to save the rest of the people.

[WVKayaker]

Buy as much land as you can and plant a VICTORY garden... Grow corn to feed your steers and pigs, keep chickens for eggs and meat, and grow all your own food. Hunt and fish. Learn how to make candles, because the lights are probably going out soon! Wood stoves make fabulous biscuits...

The shiite IS hitting the fan! I am also a 60 yo, and ready to spit into the faces, and on the graves, of all those who got us here! This is not the way we learned it in school! This isn't even the same country, as far as I can tell (se habla espanol???)

Last one out the door, hit the switch!

[quant5]

You should take care of the family first. You got it right. Some of us will be taking care of our family when benefits are drastically reduced in a decade or two. Bummer three generations are in a race against time but it’s part of the human experience I guess. It could be worse and we lived in Africa or North Korea, Tibet, etc.

[45Auto]

I think you have the only plan worth a darn. I am near retirement age and my company recently "revised" my retirement health care benefit with a mandatory life-time cap. Before that I was promised unlimited coverage in retirement. Although it was always a supplement to Medicare, there was something comforting (and perhaps only a fantasy) about having coverage independent of the government. I suspect that when Medicare goes belly up only those with a fair amount of wealth will be able to obtain any level of health care. When that happens the corporations will not be able to afford employee health care at the current levels nor any for retirees.