I Can Retire At 70

[MaryH]

I just got one of those updates from social security. I can now retire at 70 - if I keep working at my present salary - and get enough to almost live on.

How do they think all of us are going to be able to keep working until we are 70?

And we should have a million dollars in the bank? Yea, like that' going to happen. People who work the jobs I have to don't have a million dollars in the bank.

I will rolling up to my job with my walker.

That is really something to look forward to.

[Soloflecks]

1. I'll be buried here.

Just hoping I can hold up to working forever or until I drop dead, whichever comes first, lol. Otherwise it's life pushing a shopping cart and mumbling to myself as I shuffle along the streets.

[CrispyQ]

2. You can retire, but will you have health benefits? . . .

...at the time when you probably need them most.

Life in America:

--prepare yourself to be able to live on a service level wage.

--prepare yourself to be able to provide your own (catastrophic) health benefits.

Ouch!

It's gonna get UGLY down here!

[NJCher]

3. lucky you

You plan on making it to 70. I'm kind of betting I'll only make it to 60-something. No health insurance, not much of a prospect of getting any. I figure that even if Kerry is our president, with the r-w running things there isn't much of a chance for me and the other millions of uninsured.


Cher

[TexasSissy]

4. I don't understand. Full retirement age is....oh, are you really young?

My full retirement age is 66. The age at which I get full benefits.