Posted on 03/08/2006 3:32:46 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day
Keep the kidney.
Are you using your liver?
I don't think he really cares WHICH funds you buy, but the point is, invest in some, or you'll be sorry.
These are broad-based index funds for the most part. He's not trying to drive up the NAV of some small fund that he owns most of the shares.
"I meet far too many people who are well into their 40s and 50s who have yet to begin planning their retirement."
Sad, ain't it? I've listened to and loved Ben Stein for a long time. I'm on track to retire in 10 years at age 55. Debt free, income from investments, the selling of my business, a military retirement, a little SS money (though that's not factored in, that's gravy) and real estate. I can make chump change working at whatever I FEEL like working at, at that time. (I'm one of those people that will always "work" at something for fun and profit.)
That's the plan, anyway. However, I could be run over by a bus tomorrow, LOL!
Anyhow, great reality check as always, from Ben Stein. :)
Sadly, anyone with a history book doesn't have wonder what it will be like. It will be like it's been for most of human existence.
This is the Ant and Grasshopper story writ large, and your local friendly Democrat will be there to offer "compassion" to the old folks who elect them, and our children and grandchildren will be hammered by taxes, loaded up with resentment and bitterness.
I think the addiction to credit is largely responsible for this train wreck that's about to arrive.
Have you read your ss statements? If I was in charge, I'd refund every penny to everyone who's put into ss and cancel ss. I won't be in charge anytime soon.
Do you mean under?
LOL. We are so damn unhealthy--bet you had bacon and eggs for breakfast, drank whole milk, ate meat, potatoes and gravy with bread spread with real butter and drank coffee. Home cookin' and good. Most kids don't know how to cook and would rather pay someone to make it for them. I will be standing beside you.
As long as I get to keep my McMansion.
That acid is really a trip, hey?
It's probably shot, but you can have the leftovers.
Hell they can have that. Just leave my IRA and 401k alone.
You baby boomers made one mistake. You didn't teach the younger generations any morals. So now when your 70 and voting in record numbers to steal our money, we won't have too big of an issue with snuffing you out.
I've always suspected the fed govt would change the rules retroactively on 401ks and enact a super surtax on withdrawals to subsidize social security, sometime in the next 10 years.
Yea, and do you see any of our Congressmen doing anything about their loan sharking?
Isn't life grand? Too bad you weren't born 30 years earlier, and you too could be living the life of luxury.
Why do you think so many of them also want you disarmed? Hmm?
BTW, I'm a boomer, YoB 1949, and pretty well armed.
What about those senator and rep's bennies?
Not to worry - by then all those illegal aliens will be given amnesty and be ready to take care of you.
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