I turned 60 today ....I'm sad/ Beyond Bitter

[lib2DaBone]

Received my IRA statement today. Bernake/Bear Sterns got it all. I was out today applying for $8 an hour jobs. I can't describe the feeling, but it's like when someone punches you hard in the stomach. Even the booze doesn't help.

[lisa58]

1. Happy Birthday - and I'm sorry it's such a mess

[gateley]

2. I want to wish you a Happy Birthday anyway --

and tell you I'm so sorry about your IRA.

We'll start to turn things around in just a few more months. Hang in there! :hug:

[KSinTX]

3. Happy 60th - maybe with the big bailouts you'll spring back. n/t

[otohara]

4. Happy B-Day

this country is sucking more and more day, by day.

[Skittles]

5. I hear you, lib

I'm not in that position yet but I can foresee myself headed that way - do what you have to do to survive and remember we are always heere

[Elwood P Dowd]

I will be 61 this summer.

Have zero retirement (long story) and make a few hundred a month selling stuff on eBay and doing odd jobs. Have no health insurance other than the VA. It's been a fucking rough 7 years!

[knowbody0]

6. im 60 on monday

and my sucky 401k netted me 2,308.00......wanna dance with me?

[Freedomofspeech]

7. So sorry...

did you ever imagine our country would end up like this? I will be 60 in a month.

[Warpy]

8. I'm close to your vintage and imagine that they'll eventually

manage to steal everything my dad left me. I can no longer work, but I know how to be poor, done it all my life.

Your scratcher graphic was all too appropriate for most of us, and now they even want to rip our Social Security off.

Damn them all to a hell I don't believe in, just damn them.

[Jensen]

9. Happy Birthday ! God be with you and all of us who are in deep doo-doo!

[femrap]

10. Wait a sec....

Bear Stearns was taken over and didn't belly up. What do you mean that your IRA is gone?? I don't understand.

Did you work for Bear Stearns?

[msedano]

11. happy bidet. two more to retirement, or 5

unless you pulled the pin early? the good thing about investment money is none of it's real unless you liquidate. i know folks who lost tens of thousands in their 401K a few years ago, then the market went up and they got it all back, and more. then the market took swing back down and they lost it again.

btw, i am thousands ahead on the california lottery. i don't play.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Happy Birthday

Mrs. D turns 60 next month; I'm not far behind.

We got killed in the Clinton/Bush economy.

Maybe we can share an apartment?

[Jane Austin]

13. To all you 60-year-olds.

It's going to get better. Dems are going to turn things around - probably within four years.

Be of good cheer - and remember SIXTY IS THE NEW FORTY!

ld

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. I don't feel like 40.

I did until 2001. Think I will drink another cool one.

:beer:

[Jane Austin]

16. Ah - but you're comparing it to YOU'RE 40!

Compared to our parent's 60's or 40's there's no comparison, generally.

Shoot, I learned to ski, got married, moved twice and started a business in my forties!

My mother, an estimable woman by any measure never did any of those things, except to marry.

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. I made good money in my 40s, went broke in my 50s, and....

now I'm living in BushWorld during my 60s. My 90-year-old mother was living in CarterWorld when she turned 60.

[Jane Austin]

20. But, she didn't have an Apple

and you do!

I win!

[Elwood P Dowd]

21. Beer and Apple computers

I simply cannot resist those two......that's why I'm broke all the time. During hard times I've learned to enjoy cheap beer and used Apples.

Hey, my mother actually used one of my ole' Apples for a few months back in the 1990s. The arthritis in her hands forced her to finally give up that experiment. Now, she calls me to look up web pages and print out articles to send to her two repuke brainwashed daughters.

[xxqqqzme]

14. I turned 60 in January and my statement that month

told me I lost $15,000. I haven't opened a statement since then. I don't want to know how little I have left.

[unkachuck]

18. Happy Birthday and....

....don't run yourself down or make yourself sick....or die....that's what they want you to do....

....fool 'em and live to be one hundred....and on your way to one hundred, fuck 'em every which way you can....

[orleans]

19. i'm sorry. you know you're not alone though--minor consolation

and i'm sure i'll be in your shoes (in some form at least) by the time i hit 60.

it sucks.

but...you made it this far, right? so fuck it all this week. happy birthday and celebrate it through the weekend. you're only sixty once.

and i'll even buy you a tuna fish sandwich

[Oldtimeralso]

22. delete

Dupe

[Oldtimeralso]

23. Subject: Happy Birthday anyway

I'm not too far behind you and was forced out of my job after 36 years when they said I was medically unfit to work, but I do not fit the SS disability standards. There are no "reasonable accommodations" in my company as all jobs are based on seniority and with the booming economy a lot of workers are laid off and would have to be recalled before I could get an office position. I'll have to look for a burger flippin job or maybe in a bulletproof cage overnight at a gas station.:dilemma:

[NuttyFluffers]

24. all i can offer is a hug & happy birthday.

happy birthday!

:party:

:hug: :grouphug:

you need company if you're going to drown your sorrows, soi'll be your drinking buddy. draw a little happy face on your Cosmopolitan's maraschino cherry -- that'll be me.

:evilgrin: <-- i look like this, except w/o the goatee and horns.