Agree with need to get smart with end of life decisions.  Single-payer plan owuld be best to me.  But amweary of the simplistic statements on Medicare- "with a 2% real rate of return, couple will get $387,000 medicare benefits for paying in $122,000"  First, all the "privatize your retirement" proponents assume a 7% ra...more

Every dollar saved will be worth more...?  The dollars I saved a year ago earned far less than 1% interest but inflation was 1.7%.  Those dollars saved are actually worth less.  Interest rates on savings need to be equal to or higher than the rate of inflation for this statement to be true.

The "cost-cutting" has been primarily on the backs of already underpaid JCP employees.  Staff was cut, demotions were made, hours cut for "managers", mandatory late-night shifts to place the inventory that comes once a week now instead of almost daily, signage and displays now come from HQ instead of being created and ...more

If you don't want to pay $43 then don't take the tour, Botdriver.  If the price is too high, and the tour turns out to be a "rip off" attendance will be low and the price will probably go down.  If too many people show up, they will raise the price and $43 might seem like a bargain a year from now.  That's the way the ...more