How is it that you've been in the workforce for 30+ years and all that you have to show for it is $35k???  I'm 29 and I have more than that by not even saving that aggressively.  And I live in the Washington DC area, which is a hell of alot more expensive than Atlanta or Ft Lauderdale.    I'd also say check your c...more

Saw these five sentences the other day and thought they summed things up pretty well:   1)  You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.  2)  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3)  The government cannot gi...more

I stopped reading after #1 above.  Mortgage interest deductions.  How you can take something that is 100% equal to everyone and throw your slanted liberal twist into it is hilarious.  Remind me never to read an article from this clown again.

Setting the morality issue aside, a mortgage is a legal contract, and you can and should be sued for intentionally breaching it.  Another thing that I was wondering is where were all of these individuals 5 years ago when home values were sky-high?  Did the bank come back to you and put a higher mortgage on your home be...more

Ashley, I don't think anyone is knocking Sociology as a major.  I happen to think that being a social worker is admirable.  The problem that I have is going to a top notch school and racking up a 6 figure debt when you have to know going in that you'll never be well-compensated as a social worker.  To me, it just seems...more

The cost of education is a huge problem in the US, no doubt about it.  Having said that, people need to think for themselves and be responsible.  I'm going to come off as an insensitive a-hole I'm sure but the girl in the first situation racked up $200k at a private school for a Sociology major?  I don't know a Sociolo...more

Why is it that any time someone talks about the wealthy, they always use the "evil CEO" as their example?  I'll grant you that there "evil CEOs" out there, but do you people not realize that for every one of these individuals, there are tens of thousands of doctors, lawyers, engineers, CPAs, small business owners, etc,...more

This article may have been useful 30 years ago.  However, someone who is just getting started at the age of 25 should aspire to save far greater than $1 million dollars if they want to live comfortably in retirement if you consider taxes and inflation.

What a joke of an article.  How to hide from your creditors?  Is there really any wonder why this country and alot of its people are in the shape that they're in when you have articles like this posted on a major website?