Let’s see. You work hard. You don’t buy some things because you are saving for retirement. Joe N. Titlement doesn’t save a thing.... He knows the government will take YOUR savings to pay for HIS retirement! That’s “fairness”!
I know SO MANY PEOPLE who have ABSOLUTELY NO SAVINGS for retirement.... what else could they be thinking besides, “The government will take care of me.”??????
Yup. The mindset is: No one starves in America. I don't know how it will happen, but I know I'll be taken care of, somehow, somewhere, by somebody. It would be unthinkable to abandon me!
Until we place the option of starvation in an alley back on the table as a real possibility, some people will see no reason to take personal responsibility for their own future.
We’re already in retirement with a little savings. We’re thinking like this. - Husband at 67 still working a lot and hustling up extra money online sales. I’m thinking I’ll need to get a job as a greeter at Walmart or else something at the new theme park as long as I can stand on my pegs.
That Senator who said we retirees are sucking at the gubmint tit is asinine. For many, many years (before they changed the rules mid-game on us) we paid into that SS system like good little citizens. That Senator is probably pulling down the equivalent of $250,000.00 per year; meantime he’s badmouthing US and HE’S the one sucking at the tit and has done for many years. While he’s raided the SS fund in order to deliver pork as bribes to his voters for re-electing him; who also likely name buildings and bridges after him. (I’ll eat my words if I’m mistaken!)