According to USA Today many on the verge of retirement are in danger of losing their pensions.
Yet the President and many of his Conservative allies gleefully yammer away about the day when Americans will no longer depend on Social Security to finance their retirements.
Interestingly, they seem to not say much about what will happen when these vaunted private sector funds fail to materialize as well.
And with the costs of housing and education what they are, one cannot provide properly for a family and also save for your golden years. And if one foregoes offspring in order to sacrifice in order to achieve financial independence, one is castigated by the likes of Al Mohler for being a bad Christian.
Better get use to saying, "Hi, welcome to Wal-Mart."
Numerous preachers and the like often snoddily gleam through plastered on smiles that there is nothing in the Bible about retirement; but what they fail to realize is that not everyone derives the same sense of satisfaction as they do from their line of work and there are many occupations 70 or 80 year olds are just not going to be able to do no matter how much they might want to.
Copyright 2005 by Frederick Meekins
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