Osama bin Laden is dead

[Bonny]

Volunteering in schools? How? Thanks to the liability scares pushed on the schools by the baby boomer's lawyers, the schools won't take volunteers, because to volunteer you have to pay $$$ to have a complete background check run, and the school is held liable for anything that happens while the volunteers are there. I've been trying to volunteer to help in the schools, and I cannot due to liabilty concerns.

Most of my generation doesn't expect one dime from SS, not because of greed, but because of the greed of groups like AARP who would rather see insolvency for the government rather than cut into their piece of the pie.

You are a tax payer. That is your school. You should be able to volunteer in a building you are paying for with your tax dollars.

We have a special volunteer group in our area & fill out forms before we volunteer & they do the back ground check & we are insured through them & don't have to pay a dime towards the insurance. We fill out time sheets to count the number of people served.

I never thought the generation I am a part of would ever get to see S.S. either. It was threatened to go defunct when I was a teenager. I still pay into to S.S. along with medicare in my part-time job. I plan on working till I drop dead so I guess I shouldn't be to much of a burden to our society.

I was a stay at home mom so didn't build up much in the way of anything so would be considered a codependent person living off of my husbands retirement. If he passes before I do his pension would cease then I would have live off of his life insurance, 401-k,& hopefully get to stay on our little farm. I would not want to be a burden to anyone in our society so hopefully I can stay healthy. If I should die before hubby well then he would have to find himself another sweet heart to keep him company.

As far as AARP goes they are a ripe off.

[wombat2u2004]

If I should die before hubby well then he would have to find himself another sweet heart to keep him company.

No worries mate.....I can help him find someone else.
I'll just take him on a holiday to the Phillipines, plenty of sweethearts there to choose from.
And Bonny, no need to thank me. I'd do the same for any of my mates.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I was a stay at home mom so didn't build up much in the way of anything so would be considered a codependent person living off of my husbands retirement. If he passes before I do his pension would cease...

Sorry to bring up facts again but...if your husband has a pension and dies before you the only way his pension would cease is if you sign papers agreeing to such an arrangement. If he dies before he begins to collect his pension it is assumed he selected (and you agreed to) a survivor benefit.

This is the law - ERISA. It was written to protect spouses. It was lobbied for and written by...Baby Boomers/wicked lawyers/AARP/Congress. Before all these evil people passed this law it was not uncommon for husbands to select the maximum pension payout - with no survivor benefits. Many a widow was shocked to find she had no income after the death of her husband.

As they say - there are facts, damn facts and inconvenient facts!

[Bonny]

Sorry to bring up facts again but...if your husband has a pension and dies before you the only way his pension would cease is if you sign papers agreeing to such an arrangement. If he dies before he begins to collect his pension it is assumed he selected (and you agreed to) a survivor benefit.

This is the law - ERISA. It was written to protect spouses. It was lobbied for and written by...Baby Boomers/wicked lawyers/AARP/Congress. Before all these evil people passed this law it was not uncommon for husbands to select the maximum pension payout - with no survivor benefits. Many a widow was shocked to find she had no income after the death of her husband.

As they say - there are facts, damn facts and inconvenient facts!

Hubby selected maximum pension & there are no survivor benefits. That is why there is the life insurance & 401 K. I don't recall signing any papers with the union or company it was decision he had to make at the time of retirement.

Now I have to keep him alive & well for a long long time.