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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:26 AM Original message |
For Many Seniors, There May Be No Retirement |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. We're supposed to be working for the man until the day we drop dead, |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. How about those of us in our 30's who work paycheck to paycheck with no medical insurance, no 401(k) |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. Thank GOD for social security or things would be far worse. Course we seem to want that gone. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That's exactly right. Wall Street seeks to 'fee' our social security savings to death. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
4. I have the advantage of being poor for years & knowing how to live poor. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. it makes no sense to deprive a kid of a job because.... |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
7. I'll be working until I am dead |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I thought I would be working until I was dead, |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 11:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Me too. |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
8. A 65 year old teacher...? Wow!..... |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. and by many seniors |
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Worried senior (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'd like to find a part time job |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. my wife and I were discuss that this morning - over 50? Good luck finding a job. |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. The jobs are needed by the young? |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I knew I'd get one of these...! |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-26-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Ummmm...... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
12. Really? no shit. I'm on the "installment" program... |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-25-11 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. 50ish and long-term unemployed here |
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