$38 - that will buy 4 bags of dog food for them to eat.

lucky ducks.

IgG4: lucky ducks.

This.

I can't wait to start living on 13,500K per year. I already have my shopping cart and cardboard box picked out.

Don't spend it all in one shopping bag, old crippled people.

diaphoresis: I have a hedge fund investment... I'm gonna do just fine.

Read the fine print: that is a HEDGEHOG fund you invested in. You will have to spend your retirement cleaning 3000 hedgehog cages.

/Still, I have to admit that would be better than most hedge fund investments.

EnviroDude: $38 - that will buy 4 bags of dog food for them to eat.

Bags? Come on! It's their Golden Years, they should splurge on the canned stuff.

gwydion56: diaphoresis: I have a hedge fund investment... I'm gonna do just fine.

Read the fine print: that is a HEDGEHOG fund you invested in. You will have to spend your retirement cleaning 3000 hedgehog cages.

/Still, I have to admit that would be better than most hedge fund investments.

Who has 3000 hedgehog cages?!?

One step closer to octogenarian prostitution to survive.

Make way for the Nana-puss.

turp119: hey asshole, alot of people dont make enough money to save for their own retirement. but i guess they should be more bootstrappy right?

If the government didn't take 15.1% of their income, in SS and Medicare taxes, their whole working lives perhaps they could have.

If the government didn't allow the Federal Reserve to continually devalue the dollar, stealing the purchasing power of the poor and middle class's wages and savings, people could easily save for their retirement instead of having to venture into the stock market to simply break even.

The government did worse than even the biggest moron with money. The moron would at least save something, the government spent every penny of the tax withholdings and put rubber checks in the "trust fund".

The current US government is an expert at breaking the legs of the people and then handing them crutches. You then sit there and say, "How nice, without the government handing them crutches they couldn't walk." I and others would rather the government not breaks people's legs in the first place.

Yeah, blow me Obama administration. I am on disability, worked for 20+ years and broke my back. Reluctantly went on disability, because what else could I do. I tried to return to work, but between the morphine fog, the pain and the whole it's difficult to walk I found it impossible. So, I (and many others) have spent decades paying into the Social Security system and found out we had to use our benefit way before we ever dreamed we would have to.

It isn't much, in fact it is damn near impossible to live on the benefit we receive.If it wasn't for my savings accumulated while I was working and my wife's job I wouldn't be able to have a decent life. And I am a lucky one, for I had a high paying career so my benefit is higher than most. For the last two years none of us, on disability or on SS retirement, have received a cost of living increase. Despite gasoline that rose almost daily, electricity skyrocketing and the cost of groceries going up and up. Nope, the Obama administration didn't think it was necessary for us who rely on SS to get a cost of living increase. Of course Congress got a raise during that time, because as we all know living on a few hundred grand a years is tough.

So, we get a measly 3.5% increase for three years, but just to make sure that we don't live to high on the hog they are going to up our Medicare premium (I don't know how much yet) which will probably wipe out most of the increase we are getting. Thanks Obama, always looking out for the 99% aren't you? So glad the Republicans aren't in power, because God knows we only got a YEARLY increase when they were. But don't worry yourself, you and Michelle go ahead and spend another $4 million of our tax dollars on your vacations this year. Because we all know that you and your family deserve to travel the world at our expense, because you worry about us so much.

As a government worker under a pay freeze because America is going broke funding entitlements, I'm glad I could help out.

MyRandomName: gwydion56: IgG4: lucky ducks.

This.

I can't wait to start living on 13,500K per year. I already have my shopping cart and cardboard box picked out.

Or you could save for your retirement. The horror!

Or you can try to do everything right and have a horrific accident at work cut you down in your prime right at the beginning of your highest income in your lifetime. That injury coming in when I was 37 kept me from attaining the funds for retirement that was working for. And most of the savings I did have were depleted during the 5 long years it took for Social Security to approve me for disability. But don't let the facts stand in the way of you passing judgement on people. Because we all know that you are immune from ever having a disease or accident that will keep you from attaining your goals. The horror is that the government has taken our money during our working lives and mis-managed it so badly that the SS system is in the state that it is in. We did our part, did what was asked of us and there is no shame in collecting on the benefit that we are entitled to because we PAID for it. You are acting like it is a handout. Not by a long shot, all of us on disability or SS retirement have paid for that benefit and you can be damn sure we are going to collect it.