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NYC_SKP

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1. This 401K crap is like the RW Personal Retirement Account & Medical Savings Account movements.

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 04:52 PM

Nov 2014

Just a shitty way to force people into risky investments and/or privatized schemes instead of good quality and secure social security and medicare for all.

Fuck it.

We who had accounts lost our butts while execs were vacationing at the Ritz Carltons of the world.

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Anyone wanna take a break from Ferguson and shoot down this FB post? [View all] LaydeeBug Nov 2014 OP

This 401K crap is like the RW Personal Retirement Account & Medical Savings Account movements. NYC_SKP Nov 2014 #1

Mom never did get hers back. KamaAina Nov 2014 #2

My "savings" were in my home, which went almost upside down, and my AIG plan. NYC_SKP Nov 2014 #6

Well, she did marry a retired corporate attorney KamaAina Nov 2014 #7

What you describe is market timing by wealth investors brush Nov 2014 #3

The Stock market is a shell game GreatGazoo Nov 2014 #4

My Apple Stock is up 60% in the past year... brooklynite Nov 2014 #8

yes. I put my father in Apple when the stock was $10 (2001) GreatGazoo Nov 2014 #9

The Union pension funds are all in the stock market... brooklynite Nov 2014 #10

This all great stuff guys, and I really do appreciate it. nt LaydeeBug Nov 2014 #5