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Economy

Warpy

(114,559 posts)

7. And financially!

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 03:51 PM

Mar 2014

Even people in their 50s who saved and invested and were looking at a comfortable retirement now have nothing but Social Security and a patchwork of part time, dead end jobs to look forward to because they've had to run through everything just to survive.

Golden years, my ass.

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Thoughts on Exiting Long-term Unemployment [View all] M.G. Mar 2014 OP

k&r for the truth. Life is mostly a matter of luck. Laelth Mar 2014 #1

On luck M.G. Mar 2014 #2

Indeed. Our birth is the biggest stroke of luck we ever get. Laelth Mar 2014 #10

Congratulations on your new job! LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #3

You are welcome M.G. Mar 2014 #4

I used to be a newspaper journalist. We are pretty much obsolete. LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #5

I wasn't aware journalism had changed... M.G. Mar 2014 #8

And financially! Warpy Mar 2014 #7

It is brutal M.G. Mar 2014 #9

Nearly all revolutions down through history have occurred because of debt peonage Warpy Mar 2014 #11

That's a good point... M.G. Mar 2014 #12

The young and old will combine in this one Warpy Mar 2014 #13

I got caught in the Nixon recession Warpy Mar 2014 #6