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We need a global reset DE,,,,,,,,Only the 1% can survive retirement. Just as they designed this scam...........




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Our Ridiculous Approach to Retirement
By: Decomposed
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Thu, 26 Jul 12 4:14 AM
Msg. 42856 of 45651

Our Ridiculous Approach to Retirement

By TERESA GHILARDUCCI
The New York Times

Published: July 21, 2012

I WORK on retirement policy, so friends often want to talk about their own retirement plans and prospects. While I am happy to have these conversations, my friends usually walk away feeling worse — for good reason.

Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. The specter of downward mobility in retirement is a looming reality for both middle- and higher-income workers. Almost half of middle-class workers, 49 percent, will be poor or near poor in retirement, living on a food budget of about $5 a day.
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To maintain living standards into old age we need roughly 20 times our annual income in financial wealth. If you earn $100,000 at retirement, you need about $2 million beyond what you will receive from Social Security. If you have an income-producing partner and a paid-off house, you need less. This number is startling in light of the stone-cold fact that most people aged 50 to 64 have nothing or next to nothing in retirement accounts and thus will rely solely on Social Security.
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Good article. Read the entire piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/our-ridiculous-approach-to-retirement.html?_r=2


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