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JDPriestly

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7. Thanks for making this problem human. It's really a terrible problem.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 02:14 AM
Feb 2016

Imagine being in your late nineties, having been raised in a world without computers and having to deal with investing your personal pension fund money. Horrors!

My mother was in a similar predicament. She was of sound mind, had no problem managing her affairs, but investments??? Her prescription orders were very difficult for her to manage. She did a good job in paying her bills and taking care of her finances, but it was really not fair to expect her to do what she had to do. Most people her age would not have managed.

We need to keep Social Security and have defined benefit plans paid by employers and employees.

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