Coming from her, it's a bad joke.

Good for her.

As someone who already lives on monthly SS checks, I would add a couple suggestions. First, get a pay as you go phone (I use Virgin Mobile where I pay $30 for 1500 minutes a month). Learn to cook and look for food coops. If you can find an "intentional community" and deal with communal living, that's a good way to put ...more

Well done. For more information on China's role and the power reversal that's coming, see writings by former Morgan Stanley economist and now Yale professor of economics.

This is only going to get worse. As people age and retire, especially those whose retirement funds were lost during the market drop and who didn't have the money to reinvest before the market went back up again. Those people are already causing a run on the Social Security system because taking early SS is the only thi...more

Rich people don't produce jobs. They hide their wealth in tax cheats that are a product of the Regan-Bush-Bush presidencies. TAX THE RICH!!!

Actually the government can create jobs. Look at the PWA back in the 1940's. The point is this: the very wealthy in this country either do not pay taxes or pay a pittance percentage-wise compared to the poor working man. It's time we changed that. TAX THE RICH!!!

Obry...   "banking, health, hospitality, repair" That's exactly my point. You're either a doctor or you aren't. You're either a banker or a teller. Do you see the discrepancy?

A lot of people here are talking about going out and getting a job like it was as easy as going to the grocery for milk. If it were that easy, trust me, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Any manufacturing job that requires steps that can be dupicated is being done by a robot these days. The rest of the manufactu...more