Being an only child sucks.  You miss out on one of the most important socialization experiences there is.  I hardly remember my childhood because there was no one there to make memories with and to talk about all the little everyday stuff that happens.  I am 40 now and would give everything I have and more for a siblin...more

That's $20,000 more than I will see when I am in your position!  We work just as hard and pay just as much, but will never see a penny of it because it will all be sucked up by the glut of boomers - NOT FAIR!

And what HUGE media bias - a quiet headline buried down somewhere that you have to look for.  And when you do find the story, there is no judgement about how hypocritical he is, no overt judgement about how this all ties to oil and OIL IS BAD, again, just quiet, factual statements with no sensationalism attached.  If t...more

Agawa, really, SS$ is in T-Bills?  Really?  You are a naughty boy, you have been drinking WAY too much Kool-Aid!

Not a guilt trip - a FACT!  Enjoy yours as well!

OK, let's see...Boomers are the last generation getting pensions and Social Security - we won't call those "entitlements" - and they have sucked the last breath out of the economy so that we can't actually create the kind of wealth that the Boomers could.  Further, they refuse to relinquish their stranglehold on the jo...more

I got to this article through another article titled "Planning on an Inheritance?  Good luck!"  Seems the boomers are the only ones left inheriting anything - just like they are the last generation to get anything out of Social Security, Medicare, pensions, etc.  Is anyone seeing a pattern?  This greedy, selfish genera...more

Two pensions and Social Security? Replacing working income? And you are complaining?  Please.  I am 40, hubby is 42 and when we reach that age there will be NOTHING for my husband me but what we save - we will be lucky to EVER retire, no matter how good or bad the economy is then.  I know you have worked hard - but so ...more

God, bitter much?