Reuters: Why you may retire in poverty

[woo me with science]

37. You can't plan on not being a burden if it is impossible to

live so that you have something in reserve. Whether you plan to leave it to your children or bury it in a park, the point is that more and more people have NOTHING left over...or they are crushed by debt. Life happens. Medical emergencies happen. You become a "burden" despite your best intentions. The restructuring that the one percent have perpetrated on our financial system, our commerce, our taxation, our wages and cost of living, our medical and banking systems has driven millions into poverty. It is unconscionable, in a country with the wealth of the United States, that living and then dying penniless are becoming so commonplace.