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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 12:07 PM Oct 2012

The Saving For Retirement Meme Is A Myth At Under $15 An Hour.

The GOP sponsored "food stamp" Walmart jobs cannot possible pay enough to save for retirement. When you are not even making enough to feed yourself and support your children, retirement savings is totally out of the question. The "good jobs" meme is bullshit because their idea of a good job is a top rate of $12 an hour actually. Just look at what is out there in this "service economy". And chances are that the job will be part time.

Until the work force becomes pro union and demands a living wage with benefits the situation will get much worse. And the truth about the 12 million jobs Romney promises is that it is just a lie to get votes. He will more likely deliver 12 million lay offs. And if workers fail to wake up they won't like the real Romney when he does come out.

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The Saving For Retirement Meme Is A Myth At Under $15 An Hour. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Oct 2012 OP
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intheflow

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Sat Oct 20, 2012, 08:46 PM
Oct 2012

I'm 48 and only made more than $15/hr ONE YEAR of my working life, and even the jobs I have had at just $15/hr have only been 15-20 hours a week. I can never retire.

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