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maddiemom

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10. Are your kids grown? Even so, they may be well educated and still be "un" or "under" employed,d

Reply to Elmer S. E. Dump (Reply #5)

Fri May 22, 2015, 01:01 AM

May 2015

I realize that from personal experience. Remember the days when kids expected to help out their parents in old age? Now far too many parents who've provided all they could for their kids and seen those kids seriously motivated to move on, STILL worry about their adult kids' future when they're/gone and have had to deplete any financial legacy.

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I no longer have to worry [View all] madamesilverspurs May 2015 OP

Whenever my SS goes up, Suich May 2015 #1

A lot of people are not aware that your Medicare payment will come out of your Social Security. maddiemom May 2015 #9

Whoa! babylonsister May 2015 #2

Let's call it what it is: CRIMINAL. calimary May 2015 #3

+1 SoapBox May 2015 #8

Somehow I didn't get that much... Thespian2 May 2015 #4

I'm not in your position, so take this with a grain of salt Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #5

Thanks Thespian2 May 2015 #6

I'm getting there, believe me. Sucks to get old. Elmer S. E. Dump May 2015 #7

Are your kids grown? Even so, they may be well educated and still be "un" or "under" employed,d maddiemom May 2015 #10

K&R stage left May 2015 #11

Just wait until the TPP becomes law and the price of your meds go up by 75%. Enthusiast May 2015 #12

One of the TPP's worst provisions MaggieD May 2015 #26

To phrase Alan Grayson "hurry up and die" Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #13

Repukes could care less and.... wolfie001 May 2015 #14

This is just one reason Andy823 May 2015 #15

^^^^^^^^ this^^^^^^^^ n/t BlancheSplanchnik May 2015 #17

We have to take the WH with the *right* Democrat. cui bono May 2015 #22

Or the Kochs. kairos12 May 2015 #16

It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. raouldukelives May 2015 #18

Great Post. bvar22 May 2015 #21

+1 cui bono May 2015 #25

it is a scam for sure KT2000 May 2015 #19

Goes to show what a farce the inflation rates are. Curmudgeoness May 2015 #20

The only inflation the inflation hawks care about is the cost of labor and prime rates TheKentuckian May 2015 #24

They should put us over '60s out on those ice floes while there still are some. nt LiberalElite May 2015 #23