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1 posted on 05/20/2014 9:34:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Have they found a way to blame Bush or Reagan yet?


2 posted on 05/20/2014 9:36:45 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I don’t know how accurate this article is but I lean on the side of them being correct since I have read other articles that indicate women tend to hit poverty after divorce.

http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/8/marriage-and-poverty


3 posted on 05/20/2014 9:37:04 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Because they voted Democrat?


4 posted on 05/20/2014 9:41:30 PM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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Just nationalize everyone’s retirements and make all distributions equal regardless of how much a person worked or saved. Except for the public employee union members of course.


5 posted on 05/20/2014 9:42:08 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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The cause of this is simple: a lifetime of shopping has left them destitute!


7 posted on 05/20/2014 9:45:20 PM PDT by Boogieman
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In fact, women are almost twice as likely as men to live below the poverty line during retirement,...

They're also more likely to be alive so ... nyah nyah nyah longevity inequality!

8 posted on 05/20/2014 9:51:16 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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We should force retired men into poverty. That way everyone will be equally poor and the liberals will be happy.


9 posted on 05/20/2014 9:53:45 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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Cry me a river...


10 posted on 05/20/2014 9:53:48 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“And because they tend to live longer, that savings has to last longer, too.”

Well, isn’t that unfair /s


12 posted on 05/20/2014 9:56:53 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

When feminists attacked patriarchy, they destroyed the very institution that protected and provided for them. Discontent fed the independence drive that drove them to complain more and divorce. The family be d@mned a girl has to reach her full potential you know. Family Law changes awarded the discontented independent any children plus cash and prises from the ex she defrauded - but Oprah nation said you go girl, he wasn’t meeting your needs and you can do better. Women in droves free from the patriarchal structures looked to their rich uncle Sam to provide what a husband should, only they did not realize Sam was a cheat who would enslave them far worse than any husband could. In droves they swooned and then voted as Obama promised them they could have sex out of marriage and murder their children, because they didn’t want to punished with a baby. They left the so called oppression of patriarchy that built the nation and ran straight into government slavery. Now they find out that when you make a deal with the Devil you get burned. Only in this case we all are consumed in flames.


15 posted on 05/20/2014 10:33:06 PM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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they forget men die earlier and they can live off their benefits/monies.


16 posted on 05/20/2014 10:33:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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For a large part of my adult life, I have been a stay at home mom. I have two college degrees and worked before my kids and on and off from home now that they are teens. This was a decision my husband and I came to as it was the best for our family, and his job provided more money, more benefits, and more flexibility. Not because he was a man but because of his degree, experience and skill set. My experience and skills also can more easily be used in a career I could have from home.

With that being said, we planned for retirement with both of us equally
covered. My husband has much more life insurance on him, our retirement savings and accounts are equally both of ours, and he has a pension he can begin collecting on when he can retire in 4 years that I am “half owner” of.

So we’ve done what we can do to ensure the best for our retirement,
hopefully together for a long time, but later for the one. It was about
choices and we would of had more for retirement had I worked f/t all those years. But we think we got and gave something money can’t buy with me staying home.

Now if there was ever a divorce, husband would probably complain to the
world how I “am ripping him off” as he “worked”. Oh, trust me, I worked! And I protected myself. But after nearly 20 happy years, I think we did the best possible. If I had been making more, husband would have stayed home.


32 posted on 05/20/2014 11:41:48 PM PDT by MacMattico
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They do get Social Security from their deceased husbands, well, except for those who divorced their husbands.

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
National Cmte to Preserve Social Security & Medicare $10,414,606 [Democrat] 82% [Republican] 17%


35 posted on 05/20/2014 11:54:52 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Why Hillary’s high numbers (even among Republicans!) won’t last
Fox News ^ | May 19, 2014 | Howard Kurtz
"And 'nearly one-quarter of Republicans said they had a favorable view of Clinton.'"

[But we know that favor for Hillary in a sizable contingent of Republicans has lasted for decades and will last as long as those particular constituents do.]


36 posted on 05/20/2014 11:56:33 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Women and minority women hardest hit.


42 posted on 05/21/2014 1:49:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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That’s gonna suck for all those boomer women who dumped their hubby’s so they could go “find” themselves.


44 posted on 05/21/2014 3:28:53 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Because they live longer?


52 posted on 05/21/2014 4:12:56 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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Like my wife says: "I bought it because it was on sale half price"!

Of course, If I mark up my $30,000.00 truck to $60,000.00 and take half off, my truck is half off...even though that is the FULL RETAIL PRICE anyways.

/facepalm

75 posted on 05/21/2014 6:57:49 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I presume that a significant part of this is due to the shorter life span of men vs that of women. When the husband dies some time before the wife, paying for his illness burns through their savings, leaving the wife essentially destitute.

Just speculation on my part, of course.


82 posted on 05/21/2014 7:23:31 AM PDT by Stegall Tx (Whoops! Back to teaching for another year.)
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How are “women” and “men “ treated so monolithically?


105 posted on 05/22/2014 1:18:53 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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