I am so sick of hearing freepers excuse the elitist Wall Street types for taking billions out of their failing companies when they left or in the form of compensation...and then asserting an ordinary worker who gets a pension or any form of retirement is somehow the problem...Well I’m older than some of you obviously. You don’t know what it used to be like before Free Trade and all the other BS, You went to work and supported your family (one salary mostly)...you could look forward to receiving decent benefits and a pension. If the company did well you benefited also.
This brave new world you youngins are creating will cause much misery and socialism in the end. These bankers have damaged capitalism more than any socialist Dem ever could...average Americans no longer trust capitalism or believe in free market ideals...thanks Wall Street...greedy bastids.
I am 65. You must be a lot older than I am. I don't remember such times. After WWII, the number of households where more than one parent worked was more the rule than the exception.
No one is saying either one or the other is the problem. Both are but paying people to not to work is wrong and gov pensions are different then the private sector.
Our local union says he does not care about the pension envy - he got for his people by politicians he paid to put in office.
One salary could support a family because of lowers taxes - government is really the only thing that has increased.