The new reality of old age in America: "I'm going to work until I die" (lobbyists, lobby)
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Stalker - no - but we do get a sense of what people are actually like when we read previous posts - too bad you're so full of yourself that you don't understand some people were not as fortunate as you - but I'm not going to explain as your mind is set and you can't see past the end of your nose.
No the problem is that I can see. You just don't like what I see. I see your a democrat so that explains a lot. I am not fortunate. I just planned.
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doubt my dad thought he would still be alive at 93 or, that he would require nursing care forc5 years and onward.
Obviously, as if he had he would have purchased a medicare supplemental plan. I am not hearing a lot of that on this thread. All the better for the scary medical bill stories. The VNA is also an option for nursing care.
AARP offers good plans. When medicare wouldn't pay for something my mother's plan paid for it.
I remember when my mom went on Medicare she was warned by medicare that it only covers 85% of most expenses which is why she got it. She lived off her social security only so somehow she managed to afford it. She also had yearly hospitalization so... and her final one was months and I never paid a dime.
Please remember the social Security system was set up to aid retirees at age 65 when most workers died of accidents, disease or just being worn out at 50. It was a plan for the middle class office workers not the coal miner or high iron worker.
I just retired a few years ago from a lifetime of mostly office work. I did not enjoy the work but I figure that is what they paid me for. Besides I always figured I was being forced to work, starting at 7 years old for my step father, and, looking at kids that got paid to do nothing, was really resentful. So, including a stint on the River Boats in 'Nam, I spent a career working for others not because I liked what I was doing but because I needed the money.
After years of that I am damn well pleased that I am retired. We are not prosperous but do own our condo and have enough to do some US travel. I also help friends work on their houses and hobbies. I am not bored because I can still read, think, write and comment on most of these threads. I am really pleased by finally living off an income I do not have to spend any time working for. Lets me fantasize that I am a member of the upper classes living off others work.
I'm lucky. I found a job that I enjoy and which affords me many opportunities beyond a paycheck.
There's still millions of things I'd rather do than work.
Give me 70K and I can retire too. Yeah there are a lot of other things I'd live to do but at some point I find something I like to do. Odds are I'd take some classes like blacksmithing. Our house is paid for so once we sell it we won't have to pay anything off. I've traveled more then most but I'm tired of working 12 hour shifts 5 or 6 days a week in a place that can get up to 130 degrees in the summer. Don't have a lot of time to hike so much anymore and it shows. Miss being with my wife at night too she's asleep when I get home at 11Pm.
Having a day job would help but still be 12 hour shifts. I make more then decent money for where we live too. So we don't live paycheck to paycheck.
GOP wants you to work till you drop dead just like in China
Stop the nonsense.
If you're not a liberal before you're twenty-five, you have no heart.
Translation, you decisions are emotionally based which is the worst time to make financial decisions.
If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.
Translation, you understand that making decisions based on emotions is not best for your financial well being. You realize you can't save the world, your more able to consider options and consider potential outcomes based on the real real rather than wishful thinking and should's, you made more educated decisions, you've grown up.
Give me 70K and I can retire too. Yeah there are a lot of other things I'd live to do but at some point I find something I like to do. Odds are I'd take some classes like blacksmithing. Our house is paid for so once we sell it we won't have to pay anything off. I've traveled more then most but I'm tired of working 12 hour shifts 5 or 6 days a week in a place that can get up to 130 degrees in the summer. Don't have a lot of time to hike so much anymore and it shows. Miss being with my wife at night too she's asleep when I get home at 11Pm.
Having a day job would help but still be 12 hour shifts. I make more then decent money for where we live too. So we don't live paycheck to paycheck.
Retire on $70k? lol
You do realize that if someone gave you $70k in one calendar year there is a gift tax. Money can't even be given without the government wanting a piece.
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First the broken record repeated constantly by those with the delusion that life's course of events is fully under their control. 
Yeah there are a lot of other things I'd live to do but at some point I find something I like to do. Odds are I'd take some classes like blacksmithing. Our house is paid for so once we sell it we won't have to pay anything off. I've traveled more then most but I'm tired of working 12 hour shifts 5 or 6 days a week in a place that can get up to 130 degrees in the summer. Don't have a lot of time to hike so much anymore and it shows. Miss being with my wife at night too she's asleep when I get home at 11Pm. 
