The James Sensenbrenner (R-Wi) Retirement Plan |
| Published: September 8, 2007, 1:16 pm |
| Tags: social insecurity, poverty, 2008 congressional elections |
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I’m of the age when retirement is no longer a distant event on my biological calendar. It might be a distant dream, but from a chronological perspective, retirement age isn’t that far off for me. After George Bush’s razor thin election victory in 2004, the battle cry of the GOP was, “Privatize Social Security!” Well, we all know that the effort to further enrich Wall Street financiers by gambling with the retirement money of Americans kind of flopped. In fact, the GOP’s scheme to privatize Social Security was so floppy that it was one of the key factors to the seismic shift in politics after the 2006 election returned control of congress to the Democratic Party. Even still, it really doesn’t matter to someone like me who hasn’t had a great retirement plan (at least up until a year ago), and who burned through most of my life’s savings during layoffs and periods of unemployment in the first part of this century. That’s why [ Full article ] |
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