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		Many people who claim there won't be social security when they retire say they plan to invest wisely now. Others say they will keep working beyond age 65. Then there's this guy (dailymail.co.uk)		46
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Cythraul

2011-11-14 08:45:44 AM

I plan on compensating for lack of retirement by stepping up my prostitution night job. I'm getting a bit old now, so it looks like I'm going to have to severely drop my prices.

RexTalionis

2011-11-14 09:31:44 AM

Cythraul: I plan on compensating for lack of retirement by stepping up my prostitution night job. I'm getting a bit old now, so it looks like I'm going to have to severely drop my prices.

I suppose you'll have to make up for it in volume.

/In both the senses of the word.

balthan

2011-11-14 11:23:01 AM

It's nice that Bob Uecker can finally retire. Man's been old forever.

/My retirement plan consists of winning the Powerball jackpot

missiv

2011-11-14 12:16:36 PM

Mr Fabian, was he the factory hair dresser? He looks fabulous.

pxlboy

2011-11-14 12:17:09 PM

My retirement plan will either consist of working until I drop dead or at the end of a pistol.

poot_rootbeer

2011-11-14 12:18:07 PM

I'd bet the guy hasn't done any actual work for at least twenty years.

AcneVulgaris

2011-11-14 12:18:33 PM

I'll take the "old man shooting rampage" retirement plan, please.

jaybeezey

2011-11-14 12:19:59 PM

Every dollar i make goes into high risk, high yield lottery tickets.

tzzhc4

2011-11-14 12:21:33 PM

If only that type of job security still existed.

chookbillion

2011-11-14 12:22:08 PM

I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

Mose

2011-11-14 12:29:05 PM

tzzhc4: If only that type of job security still existed.

www.ifc.com

SusanIvanova

2011-11-14 12:30:53 PM

chookbillion: I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

Also, apparently at 102, he's somehow still in his tenth decade, rather than his eleventh. Then again...it is the Daily Fail.

Fabric_Man

2011-11-14 12:31:39 PM

I just got into an argument with the office loudmouth about how I won't receive either Social Security or Medicare, and how I'm bitter about paying for some codger's motorized wheelchair. She's probably reporting me now for agism or some bullshiat.

//CSB

jfbnr24

2011-11-14 12:36:01 PM

My retirement plan is my son's NFL contract. I figure I have about as good of a shot of getting him into the NFL as I do actually having Social Security available when I'm ready to retire.

WTFDYW

2011-11-14 12:38:48 PM

fruitbatnt

2011-11-14 12:40:41 PM

I plan to move to China when I'm 60 - work for 5 years then hopefully qualify for their (by then) excellent state provided retirement benefits.

We'll all be speaking Chinese by then, so that won't be a problem.

probesport

2011-11-14 12:41:33 PM

I have no plans to actually retire, I'd like to have everything paid off by the time I am 45 so I can afford to just be in business for myself and sustain that way. Retire=death for most of my family, the ones that have kept on working are the ones that have stayed alive the longest.

Algebrat

2011-11-14 12:42:18 PM

chookbillion: I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

Well, he was a security guard.

/Though I doubt he had a staff of 100.

Ima_Lurker

2011-11-14 12:45:43 PM

jfbnr24: My retirement plan is my son's NFL contract. I figure I have about as good of a shot of getting him into the NFL as I do actually having Social Security available when I'm ready to retire.

You know, I get tired of people constantly saying this. You will get every dollar the government has ever promised you, if for no other reason than no politician will ever vote to take away grandma's Social Security check. Grandma actually votes, you know.

Of course, the government never made any promise as to what the value of those dollars will be. I am waiting for the day when I can tell my grandchildren that it costs less than $1000 to take your date to the movies.

mcreadyblue

2011-11-14 12:46:21 PM

sdd2000

2011-11-14 12:50:05 PM

Ima_Lurker Of course, the government never made any promise as to what the value of those dollars will be. I am waiting for the day when I can tell my grandchildren that it costs less than $1000 to take your date to the movies.

With our without the popcorn?

booger42

2011-11-14 01:03:05 PM

My goal, it to eat a little bit of cat food every now and then, so it's not a big surprise when I hit retirement.

- Ron James

Mikeyworld

2011-11-14 01:13:26 PM

You can take this to the bank:

If you leave retirement up to another person or corporation, you as big a fool as they are.

Put money in a security drawer, hang some gold on your walls (though, rite now might be bad, as it's gonna fall real soon...), keep stickin' that tithe into your OWN ira (10%/year, at a minimum), and have that collection or two, just in case. You're the one who's gonna live the retirement you create, anf if you have someone else make it., it's gonna be an off-the-shelf poor fit.

Social security is NOT a retirement. It's an income supplement for those whose retirement planning failed or derailed. Get yer OWN.

/from a bozo who didn't
//and can't afford to crap

stiletto_the_wise

2011-11-14 01:16:57 PM

chookbillion: I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

That wasn't covered by the standardized test.

Mr. Parker

2011-11-14 01:17:05 PM

Ship old people to an island, let them eat eachother to survive.

ritalinchild 54

2011-11-14 01:19:29 PM

pxlboy: My retirement plan will either consist of working until I drop dead or at the end of a pistol.

I hope I am the one pulling the trigger for me. But there is a good possibility that there will a line of folks that want to be the one to end me.

(grins)

Snakeophelia

2011-11-14 01:28:34 PM

Good for him. The whole "retire at 65" thing is antiquated and should go the way of alimony and other obsolate legal issues or cultural expectations that made sense when women didn't work outside the home and people didn't live as long. Why do we still put people out to pasture in their 60's when, nowadays, they're likely to still be mentally and physically fit (if they'd taken care of themselves)?

I've known what I wanted to do since I was 19, and I've been doing it since then. My life expectancy, given my current health and family history, is well into my 80's. Explain to me why I'd work hard to become an expert at something between the ages of 19 and 65 and then suddenly stop doing it, and be expected to do something else, or do nothing, for the last two decades of my life. Ridiculous. As long as someone will pay me to do what I love, I'll keep doing it. I love my career, and I just can't imagine a life where I'm not working.

/why yes, my parents are workaholics - why do you ask?
//my stepfather just started a new business at age 76

Allen. The end.

2011-11-14 01:34:14 PM

FTA: Mr Fabian has worked for the Anixter family for four generations. He first joined the firm in the 1930s when he was a detective with the Chicago Police. Jules Anixter offered him a job for the family acting as a security guard and chauffeur.

SO he's a slave, basically?

President_Rexall

2011-11-14 01:36:50 PM

Snakeophelia: Explain to me why I'd work hard to become an expert at something between the ages of 19 and 65 and then suddenly stop doing it, and be expected to do something else, or do nothing, for the last two decades of my life. Ridiculous. As long as someone will pay me to do what I love, I'll keep doing it. I love my career, and I just can't imagine a life where I'm not working.

Because you are part of the probably 1% or less of the working population that actually likes what they do. I can deal with my job long enough to get to Friday, where I can drink enough to forget how much the prior week sucked, but once I get too old to do that I am going to need the light at the end of the tunnel that retirement provides. If I didn't have that to look forward to, I would probably just off myself now and get it over with.

cynicalbastard

2011-11-14 01:40:15 PM

pxlboy: My retirement plan will either consist of working until I drop dead or at the end of a pistol.

Which end? It's never too late to start a life of crime.

Slaves2Darkness

2011-11-14 01:42:44 PM

chookbillion: I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

Shhh, he is secretly a Cylon.

GalFriday

2011-11-14 01:43:25 PM

mcreadyblue: Cythraul: I plan on compensating for lack of retirement by stepping up my prostitution night job. I'm getting a bit old now, so it looks like I'm going to have to severely drop my prices.

I hear days pays better any how.

But we already have Patty the Daytime Hooker.

Highroller48

2011-11-14 01:46:22 PM

SusanIvanova: Also, apparently at 102, he's somehow still in his tenth decade, rather than his eleventh. Then again...it is the Daily Fail.

chookbillion: I find it quite amusing that he was called a "centurion" and not a "centenarian".
Don't people go to school anymore?

Well, I see I'm not needed here...

cynicalbastard

2011-11-14 01:48:34 PM

Wanna bet the reason they never let this guy go was that he had too many pics from various Xmas parties throughout the decades? "Now, here's the one of yer granny in the parking lot in '63. Didn't take a lot of gin to get Granny goin', if ya know what I mean. 'Course they gave head, back in the 50's, how'd ya think the nice gals never got pregnant? Then agin, if ya were willin' ta take a chance, ya could play "railroad"- ya know, "pull out of the station on time". And the wilder gals would do it "italian style", they call it greek now, speakin' of which, that's your great-aunt Ruby that next pic, I know ya can't see her face..."

dethmagnetic

2011-11-14 01:56:24 PM

Snakeophelia: I've known what I wanted to do since I was 19, and I've been doing it since then. My life expectancy, given my current health and family history, is well into my 80's. Explain to me why I'd work hard to become an expert at something between the ages of 19 and 65 and then suddenly stop doing it, and be expected to do something else, or do nothing, for the last two decades of my life. Ridiculous. As long as someone will pay me to do what I love, I'll keep doing it. I love my career, and I just can't imagine a life where I'm not working.

Good for you, but the other 99.8% of the world works because they have to, not because they want to. The forklift drivers and cubicle monkeys and laundry folders of the world don't do what they do because of the deep sense of personal satisfaction it brings them - they work to get paid, to build a better life for themselves and their families, and to save enough so that someday they can spend their remaining years doing things that actually interest them.

EatenTheSun

2011-11-14 02:14:43 PM

Pretty sure they'ld have to reanimate my corpse in order for me to be working at 102. Please let my corpse rest.

pxlboy

2011-11-14 02:20:26 PM

AcneVulgaris: I'll take the "old man shooting rampage" retirement plan, please.

Even better.

Sundaygurl

2011-11-14 02:38:29 PM

HailRobonia

2011-11-14 02:52:36 PM

Now finally there is an open position for a younger person.

superfudge73

2011-11-14 02:59:30 PM

Retirement is for Socialists!

Smackledorfer

2011-11-14 05:22:28 PM

The one thing I know about people who think SS will be gone is that they approve of getting rid of it. Generally they'd want it gone regardless of its solvency.

reubendaley

2011-11-14 05:22:43 PM

SenorAmor

2011-11-14 05:34:00 PM

missiv: Mr Fabian, was he the factory hair dresser? He looks fabulous.

images.wikia.com

Approves

YouPeopleAreCrazy

2011-11-14 06:59:39 PM

jfbnr24: My retirement plan is my son's NFL contract. I figure I have about as good of a shot of getting him into the NFL as I do actually having Social Security available when I'm ready to retire.

I know a guy like that. His son broke his leg on the second preseason game of his first season. I think he eventually went on to play one more season elsewhere.

mraudacia

2011-11-14 08:30:06 PM

if you still believe that your going to be living the good life after 60 years of slaving away

your an idiot. keep doing what your doing.

go ahead and waste the best years of your life.

do you honestly think anyone other than your family (if your lucky) gives a curly sht about you?

when you people gonna clue in and realize there using you for as long as its profitable, then leave you to die slowly and confused, no longer any threat or competition.

WAKE UP

isaaczeke

2011-11-15 01:47:29 PM

mraudacia: if you still believe that your going to be living the good life after 60 years of slaving away

your an idiot. keep doing what your doing.

go ahead and waste the best years of your life.

do you honestly think anyone other than your family (if your lucky) gives a curly sht about you?

when you people gonna clue in and realize there using you for as long as its profitable, then leave you to die slowly and confused, no longer any threat or competition.

WAKE UP

You do know that using melodramatic appeals to emotion like "WAKE UP" combined with insults and terrible spelling and grammar guarantees that no one will ever take what you have to say seriously, right?

It's a shame, because if you laid off of the self-righteous anger, you'd probably make sense.

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