larryshoat
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hurleyjd":2pq3wz85 said:dun":2pq3wz85 said:If you take the money that would have been with held for taxes, SS, etc. and invested it in a mutual fund you would do better at retirement then what you would get from SS. Seems that people have lost the ability to save uless it's crammed down their throats by the government
The federal government is the biggest employer in America 27% now add on the state governments and the county governments and the city governmets workers and you begin to see that the problem is people working in goverment and the rest of us trying to support them.
Add to that the people that don't work at all, and people that are retired drawing a pension for more years than they worked . Before anybody attacks me on the retired thing, I realize that was the deal that they entered into when they worked, and I think it's wonderful that people are living longer, but it's a financial drain . Eventually these companies are going to find a way to slip out of these pension deals or they won't make it . Caring for an aging population will be a big issue in the not too distant future .
Larry