Great advice. But, it's sad that any American that worked all his life helping build this country should even have to consider it.

You don't have to be rich to retire. But, the number one thing you do have to do is to pay off your mortgage and eliminate any other debt you might have. Once that's out of the way, you can at least semi-retire. I've known plenty of people without a pension that have taken this route -- working 2 or 3 days a week to ge...more

Texas has no business on this list. When I left in 2000, I was paying $3600/yr in property tax on a house with a $146,000 assessed value. My current house in Colorado has an assesed value about 3 times as much, but the property tax is $2400/yr. Even when you factor in what I pay in state income tax in CO, the combinati...more

I like the way you think. Did you do the solar work yourself or contract it out? Is it the kind that has storage or the kind that sells the excess back to the grid? How long ago did you do it, and have there been any upkeep issues with the system? Would you have done anything differently? Thanks.

Blah, blah, blah. What a load of irresponsible crap. I've been listening to all kinds of morons spew this irresponsible crap for decades. My dad paid off his house at 17 years. Best thing he ever did for my mother now that he's gone. I'll pay my own off in 25 more months (I'll be 53), and I'll never look back. The only...more

So their liquidation prices suck. This is standard practice for anyone that is going under. There are so many bad shoppers our there that have no clue about comparison shopping that Borders can keep these prices up for a week or two or three, draw in all the suckers, and then produce actual liquidation prices. Be stupi...more

"Social Security currently runs a surplus". That statement has been true since it's inception. If they wouldn't have been taking that surplus to uselessly pay against the annual deficit over that entire time, even without interest gained, there would be close to $6 trillion piled up in that surplus right now. Without t...more

It's more a factor of unemployment and wage deflation than the loss of home value. Sure, the loss of home values means that the out of control spenders that were taking out some of the equity on their homes so they could buy things they really didn't need are no longer in the excessive consumption game, adding to the o...more

Typical California BS. What's pathetic is these idiots think it's owed to them. Just for comparison, a Colonel in the Air Force or Army, with 25 years serving his country, retires with close to half of that ridiculous amount. And, he likely has a Masters degree. Even more pathetic, a grunt in the Army or Marines, that ...more