The **only** people I know who seem to feel at least a tiny bit safe are retirees with checks ......

[Stinky The Clown]

.... drawn on the US Treasury.

Federal retirees. Military retirees.

Next are state government retirees.

Municipal retirees are nervous.

Everybody else is as nervous as a cat next to a rocking chair.

[Critters2]

1. I've told two family members that if things get too bad, they can come live with me.

I have a big house and a job.

[mike_c]

3. I'm already calling home the folks I love, too....

One moved in with me recently, and another is getting ready to move into the area. We all feel like it'll be a lot easier to look after one another if need be when we're not thousands of miles apart.

[mike_c]

2. I'll get a pension from California if the pension fund lasts that long....

Got ten or twelve more years to go, though, so who knows what will happen between now and then.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. I'm a Fed retiree, my wife is a state retiree.

For the very first time I ain't cussin' my ex-job(s)with the feds.

[ThomWV]

5. A retired friend and I were just talking about that today - we are both retired

I retired from the Federal Government and he retired from the Municipal Water works of the neighboring Country. We are both in good shape and not at all concerned - but I have to tell you something. If I had not retired early, as I did 3 years ago, I could not retire today and I would have been forced to declare bankruptcy just before they changed the law. No shit, I used my retirement to get myself out of debt by taking the allowed one-time raid on my retirement savings to pay off every bill I had. I have never touched the rest of my savings since then, but of course they have shrunk considerably. Doesn't bother me much, I don't need then and shouldn't for another couple of years so as long as I don't sell I haven't lost a thing and in time they will come back.

[MorningGlow]

6. I'm nervous for other people

We don't have any money to lose, so we're not feeling a pinch. Our mutual funds dropped by 25 percent, but the were nowhere near "retirement ready"--not by a long shot--so maybe over the next couple of decades we'll be able to build them back up again. Or not. WhatEVER.