Greenspan asking for Social Security Cuts!!!

I went to an auction tonight, and these guys were speaking mexican. I told them ' why don't you speak enlish, this is America'.

They just acted like they didn't hear me, or maybe they didn't understand?

Willie

:) I have to put my two cents worth on this one good post. I'm a single parent and I'm working very hard to get off social security I have two part time jobs cause there is very little full time jobs out here I'm trying very hard to get off it myself. It is hard wondering when your broke when the next meal will come from. They are cutting people down on there income as of Aprill out in British Columbia. There are alot of less people right now and I feel for each and every one of them. I'm happy I built on my two part time jobs cause if they cut me off at leaste I have that but it will be very tight around here. It's hard. I'd rather them cut me off because then I don't have to go by their rules any more I'm so sick of it. It's hard all over. Trayi52 I hear ya. I feel for the single parents out here in British Columbia who do try their best to get off social secirity. I may be picking up anouther third part time job just for extra money. Thanks for posting this one.

I will be having new pics of loveable dusty soon.

Thanks Willie

Well, back to SS, I still don't think that by the time I retire in 20+ years, Social Security will even be around. For that reason, I am really glad that I have my teacher's retirement and 403B and will have at least a little bit of insurance. I have something else that I don't know what it is, but, there will be at least something. Mike just started his 401K a few weeks ago, so we will have something when we retire...makes life REALLY tough now, but, we won't have to be on assistance when we retire (at least I hope not).

Greenspan is getting a lot of grief over his ideas, so we'll see what happens.

mugsy, back when my husband and I was younger, and running a furniture mfg. company, we had a lousy bookkeeper, who did not suggest that we start a retirement fund. Which is something he should have mentioned to us in the first place. So we didn't do that.

Now as we thought that we would always have our business, that we would not have to worry. My husband got sick, has heart and lung problem, that are life threatening. We had to go bankrupt, because his brother did not know how to run the business. All we have to live on is Social Security. It is so hard, just trying to make ends meet! Thats all we have is Social Security.

I have told my kids to start some kind of retirement fund. Finally got my oldest daughter and her husband to start an IRA at least, so they could take their tax refunds and contribute to it before April 15. I had a teacher in my Federal income tax class in college suggest that, and he worked for the the IRS.

At least the kids has started to think about that now, and my son-in-law has got a retirement fund of some kind started where he works now also.

Just wish we would have had somebody tell us that when we were younger and making soo much more money. Now it is too late for us.

Willie