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In reply to the discussion: DOW OVER 14,000! But, I thought our economy was doomed [View all]My generation doesn't have jobs that offers pensions really. Contributions to plans suck, if existent. Money is too tight to contribute anyway, especially with health care insurance costs. A growing number of us are contract workers.
Our retirement plan is waiting for our boomer parents to die before spending it all on health care.
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I thought you single moms were making a quarter million a year, including $30,000 in investments
bulloney
Feb 2013
#34
And you're overjoyed to get a flake off a crumb that the parasites dropped from the
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#17
How about if the incredibly rich eat out more. Won't this be good for waiters and chefs?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#7
But as you well know it doesn't work. There are not enough of them to buy enough stuff
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#18
And continue the cycle of making the rich richer and the workers poorer.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#26
So your theory is that people *don't* spend more money when they feel richer?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#24
See #17. You and your grandmother would both be far better off if you had the opportunity
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#20
Very good news IF you can sell and get out of the market before it dives again.
dixiegrrrrl
Feb 2013
#31
Yes but as with so many things, unlawful wars, corporate welfare, "extra-judicial" murders,
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#29
Oh yeah? Just wait and see if that uppity ni is electorated into our White's house again! why do
ChairmanAgnostic
Feb 2013
#33