Realistically, I think it has to be 1 followed by 2.
Ultimately the Company and their insurers need to cover the cost of the accident. That will involve considerable time to hold them to account. We can't wait for that, the bridge and harbor need to be fixed as soon as humanly possible.
I have...
People are incredibly naive if they think that absent a SS program, their employer is going to hand their SS match to them in wages. A company is going to take that saving as their own. There is a decent chance they'd have their eye on the percentage of your wages, presently going toward the...
At the 11th hour, Uncle Sam will shore up social security. It won't happen much sooner, because no one likes making tough choices before they absolutely have to.
I think it is a political reality that each side will have to share some pain to come up with a fix. So, it will be some mix of tax...
Much of this discussion proves the need for the floor that Social Security provides.
For reasons good and bad, many people end up old and broke. Some never made very much money, some spent their money as fast as they made it. Once you get old, there are no mulligans.
I worked many years in an...
Roughly one in six men draw SS benefits for thirty years, if they begin drawing at 62. About one in five men do not live long enough to reach 62, the earliest year they could draw a benefit.
Social Security is a floor, not a supplement. Yes, for the comfortable, like myself, it is a...
I think that in the coming 20 years or so, it will be evident that the shift to 401k as the primary retirement funding has failed most Americans. Companies were happy to shift the onus to the employee. Once they pay their match, their obligation is fulfilled. It is entirely the individuals'...
Here is some data from a Social Security web site. The big gains in life expectancy have come from reducing infant mortality. Once you made it to adulthood, the changes over the years have been pretty modest.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html
I agree that SS is a backstop against...
Anyone who makes their money from physical labor, bricklayers, roofers, carpenters, plumbers and on and on, telling them they are working to 69, you might as well tell them they will work until they can't.
It won't affect me directly, since I'm already on Social Security, coming 73 in a couple...
Speak for yourself. By any reasonable measure, I've lived my version of the American dream.
If you are not better off than you were ten years ago, more than a little of it is on you.
Yeah, I read it and am cool with it.
If Ukraine's neighbors want to help with soldiers, outside of the NATO command, I'm totally cool with it. I'd like to see us helping with supplies, ammo, weapons, training, you get the idea.
And if you believe that to be so, there are many other things you believe to be true , that aren't.
I have no doubt there is some intelligence sharing, but I think NATO is smart enough to not get drawn in unnecessarily.