Do you sometimes feel like you have to win the lottery just to have a decent life?

[captain queeg]

1. It really is a bad situation for most.

I’m in that 10% that gets a pension check. It’s less than SS but between the two I’m ok. Provided of course my health doesn’t go south. I’d always lived pretty frugally, not that I saved much by my standards of living is low enough to keep living pretty much like I had been. I’d planned on working a couple more years, a whole lot of people end up retiring sooner than they wanted, usually due to health or losing a long time job and being unable to find another. I know there are lots of people that wish they could retire but just can’t afford it. My sister has some European friends that came to the US to visit. I guess something they all noticed were how many older people were still in the workforce. Other advanced countries take care of their elders.