RETIREMENT! not ;)

That's the way I will invest.

That was a good one!!!!!

Hi Maywood,

Good question. Maybe because they're all on the 401 KEG plan already? LOL!

Good one. Haha. :)

Our government wants to put all retirees at the mercey of Enron's Nortel's, World Com's, and Quest's. And then we have crooked brokers trained in the churning of unwary investor's funds. Prudential being the most famous, but certainly not the only financial institution with policies that fleece the small investor.

And now President Bush is going to begin one more huge push to Save Social Security by ending it.

The problem is the business community hates it, remember the employer contributes as much as the employee does.

Business loath this program. We are being told it will break the U.S.A. if it continues. I hope someone gets the real message out about why there is a huge push to end this very good program.

I do feel the Medicare Part B, the prescription coverage is very bad. If some retired people needed help paying for prescriptions, accomodations should have been made for them. The program as it stands is too expensive and is mostly welfare for the pharmaceutical companies.

Also, if you invest inthe 401 Keg plan, you at least have the beer gut to show for it. (snicker)

Perhaps if people in this country weren;t so selfish and actually cared for their aging parents instead of shoving them in a nursing home the Social Security Situation would not be so tragic.
Also Americans are so spoiled, we all have to have every new gadget that comes out on the market and think ourlives have no meaning without Cable or Satalite TV, $400 handbags, and if our kids don;t have Nintendo, GameBoy and an Xbox like all their friends do we are mean, awful parents. If their clothing doesn't have Old Navy, Ralph Lauren, Guess, and Levi's plastered all over it then they are dressed like ragamuffins....

Hm? Interesting Leslie. My wife and I and our (then) six kids took my Mother who was suffering from either dementia or Alhzheimers for about four years until she started scaring the kids at the dinner table, etc. My two brothers had already thrown in the towel. For us it was a situation of totally screwing up our home life and someone possibly getting hurt falling down the stairs as they tried to help her up the stairs and we put her in a nursing home -- our test was that we would keep her at home until the point where she did not know who we were, who she was, or where she was. That was where she was at. But, we were fortunate, although we had a lot of kids running around the house at the time, my wife did not work outside the home. Most families, however, cannot afford living on one set of wages, heck at this point you have families with parents working double jobs just to make things meet. And by the way, we didn't even have a TV let alone the other stuff mentioned. I think that if the Medicaid rules did not require people to put their parents in the nursing home fulltime in order to get benefits that more families would try to keep their parents home longer into the dementia cycle, but most cannot deal with the situation economically.

Very interesting!

Good idea, headed out to get some beer...

LOL! Too true to be good

George, bless you for doing what you could. You are absolutely correct, the Medicaid laws are OBSCENE.