Yea Eddie
50 %, been there done that.
Things are getting downright frightfull. kids can't get summer jobs at minumum wage because retirees are snapping them up, shit my paperboy is 76 years old.
can'y make any money on CDs at 2 %, than get taxed on the gain.
To old (60) to dabble in the stock market, cannot make back what i could lose)
sold the RV 3 yrs ago, would cost today 600 bux to take a weekend trip down the coast.
sold the trophy home 3 yrs ago before the market crashed (thx God) got killed on capital gains tax tho (60K)
Live in a gated retirment communty now, 2000 homes, 80 % condos, nice quite.
I have a single family home, home owners dues are about 200 a month.people some of which have lived out here for 40 years in the condos have to pay 700 a month, alot are losing there homes as they cannot afford to pay the dues, they have no place to go, alot of them are in there 80s and are being turned out on the street.
four more yrs i will take my SS and get my medicare, I worked forit, I want it.
Hated retirement, am a worker Bee, always have been, never worked for anyone,have always been self employed.
started a new buis a couple mos ago, 100% cash, i refuse to pay taxs anymore, i paid my dues, if I die before i get my SS, you guys get the 150 grand i paid into the system, my family will get nothing, plan on living till 80, want to suck my acct dry, and i will still be working(because if you stop working, you DIE)