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kpete

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Mon Nov 4, 2013, 07:47 PM Nov 2013

What the 1 percent thinks about you---You can just eat cake when you get old.

MON NOV 04, 2013 AT 02:39 PM PST
What the 1 percent thinks about you
byJoan McCarterFollow

It's all so easy if you're part of the one percent.



(Reuters) - I asked a financial services executive recently how our retirement saving system can be considered a success, considering that all but the highest-income households are approaching retirement with next to nothing saved.

His reply: "They don't have any money while they're working, so why would they have any money in retirement?"

It's just that simple. If, like 45 percent of Americans, you're of working age and you don't have a retirement plan, well that's your problem. You can just eat cake when you get old. Because the only the rich deserve to have comfortable retirements.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-column-miller-social-security-column-idUSBRE99U1CP20131031
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/04/1253085/-What-the-1-percent-thinks-about-you

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What the 1 percent thinks about you---You can just eat cake when you get old. (Original Post) kpete Nov 2013 OP
fuck the 1% REVOLUTION!!!! gopiscrap Nov 2013 #1
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