much of this is based on the retirement of the baby boomers and the money not there to pay them?nothing is said about all the years of the boomers paying record amounts into the fund or the government spending this surplus---2.7 trillion dollar excess elsewheres than where it was originally intended-----bernie madoff w...more

jobs with pay like this and slightly more are primarily the ones our economy is producing these days-----something to think about the next time you read about the markets getting excited about job creation numbers

things will get very ugly in the u.s. when our own rates climb also

unlike the big boys in the u.s.-----there will not be anyone handing out freshly printed money to greece or italy and then saying----they are to big to fail

curious-germany is aaa=with one of the healthiest economys in europe---very little outlay of course for a military-----after all the u.s.  still maintains .mans and pays for there protection  as well as many other countries 66 years after ww2-no wonder we are so broke

quite ridiculous of the g-o-p------after gaining the house in the last election there first most urgent move was keeping in place the bush tax cuts for the rich!---just where are they going to raise taxes at?oh i know----- the unemployed-there are plenty of them thanks to republican government trickle down policies ove...more

so what happened with all the hype news media reports the past 2 months telling everyone holiday spending was  impressively increasing?

in the past 2 years the govt. has printed up and funneled into the economy 700 billion in tarp money,787 billion in stimulus money ---this is now coming to the end along with the income of upwards of 25 million who week by week are seeing there unemployment money come to a final end--------it does not take a college ed...more

the remedy to all our money woes-as always-booze is the answer!