TomW: "Thinking of retiree issues, I can easily see means testing for social security as well as other entitlements, higher capital gains and corporate taxes, elimination of the Bush tax cuts, higher interest rates and higher unemployment."


Now I understand why my dentist told me at my last visit she has been traveling extensively and not worrying about retirement anymore, she's spending most of the money she saved for that day. She told me she has been so careful with her money all of her life and worked so many hours, (I can attest to the hours worked), and anyone with a retirement fund will be subsidizing everyone else's retirement. The USA has become the land of entitlement.

Her statement gave me goose bumpies because I read and I real a lot, particularly about SS and retirement, and Tom W's statement indicates the way many people are thinking. I think I'm going to forget about voting and go spend the money we scrimped to save for retirement. I wonder if testing for SS will empty quite a bit of The Villages and stymy future home purchases.