[Arrowhead1952]

We are lucky to have our home paid off, paid cash for my pickup, still have a couple of payments on the wife's car and got the daughter through college on mostly scholarships. After the last mortgage payment, it was like a big pay raise. We pay all credit cards off every month. I just hope the minions in DC don't go after my Roth and other retirement accounts.

[momtothree]

“... I just hope the minions in DC don’t go after my Roth and other retirement accounts”.

See... there is a worry. I’m not saying you need sleeping pills but I am saying that people wonder what the government will do/take/restrict next? I personally don’t remember a time that people woke up each day and thought, “what am I expected to pay more for today?” After 9/11, I woke up each morning with the thought “did something blow up today?” Today, I wake up thinking “how closer are we to the poor house?”