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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:58 AM Original message |
"Could you retire without Social Security" - WSJ article predicts SS/Medicare cuts |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. And what pray tell are we to save? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. It's the Republican Plan |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I understand. The article states you will need around $180 thousand |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Who will provide the time machine in order to go back and start the savings??? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. I've been told social security wouldn't be there for me since college, which was decades ago. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. I heard that, too. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #11 |
22. $180,000 is small compared to the $2,000,000 needed to retire in comfort. |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:36 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. That future comfort is earned on the backs of ordinary workers |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. You don't put $50,000 a year, you do less but get a decent return. |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Let them pull themselves up by the bootstraps and ... and .... EAT CAKE DAMMIT! |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:29 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. No offense, but $2,000,000 is way, way WAY beyond what any middle-class person can do. |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. better to cut here than in our war funding . . . . |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
24. The wars will end. Retirement and medical care for the elderly goes on forever. |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. Wall Street Journal |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. That's Rupert's Wall Street Journal not the NYT. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Sorry - I misread the title...you are correct....but you can bet this will become the |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. Recommend |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. "Tough noogies for you smelly proles. Smirk." - RepubliCronies, Inc. (R) |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. +1000. Back to the 1890s, Jeeves....immediately!!! |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
9. they will pay me my pension or I will be out in the streets |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Thinking the same thing Warren (love the handle btw) |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
26. The only way social security ends is if they stop taking in payroll taxes. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. NYT or WSJ? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. WSJ - see above...sorry not enough caffiene yet.....nt |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. Retire? What's that? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
16. Money be damned, I'm retiring when I'm 60. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
17. I will get right on it. 4-5 part time jobs a week oughta do it. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Hell, yeah - that $40 a year will help a lot!..if you save it!...nt |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
19. We have no choice. Both parties are defunding it for tax cuts. |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
21. Well, there goes the mortgage payment. Another house to be |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
25. This is how they will pay for that lovely tax giveaway to the rich "deal" |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Sadly, the $70 Billion annual "tax cut for the rich," is less than 10% of the $730 B in SS payments. |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
29. At this point in my life? No. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
31. More likely that you will retire without Social Security. |
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Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
33. Retire with what? Broken promises? Just give me my money back. |
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