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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Yeah, hopefully. I'm not saying we should get rid of Social Security, I'm saying I'm personally too cynical to count on it.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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I'm counting on working until I'm about 75. That'll be 3 years after I die.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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You two are the least of the systems worries. At this point I think you are expected to take the attitude that nothing will be there, otherwise there won't be.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Join Date: Mar 2007
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The problem with that thinking is that I pay a lot of money into it every year, I should get a piece.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Where are you going to save? The stock market, that crashed? The bank, 30 of which have closed in 2010? My mattress, where its value won't increase? If retirement age were increased, and if there were a net worth maximum to recieve SS, there'd be money there when we retire.
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This is a fully functional babe lair
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Akron, OH
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I'm not counting on jack from SS. Started an IRA 5 years ago and fingers crossed that and a fire department pension will see me through the golden years.
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Franklin Pierce
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Minnesota
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Same here. We got to worry about paying off interest charges as well...
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I'm not counting on it, but I'm hopeful.
When I was younger, I didn't think it would ever exist for me, and I would have welcomed its termination. But now that I've paid a metric ass ton into the system, I'm more and more interested in keeping the pyramid scheme going. They send out those little annual reports about what your payments will be at age 72 if you continue earning your current salary. That amount would be very nice to get. I wonder if those are in today's dollars or in the future's dollars? I think they say I'm gonna get like $1500 a month. That might not be enough to buy a can of cat food in 30 years when I retire. Hopefully they will adjust for inflation, and I'll get $28,000 a month so I can afford 60 cans of cat food each month. |
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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