tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post8525993348394792442..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: People shouldn't gamble more on Wall Street. They need a raise and a safety netUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-80943704071191687342018-01-10T06:32:36.932-06:002018-01-10T06:32:36.932-06:00Thanks for sharing your story. As a guy who is 43 ...Thanks for sharing your story. As a guy who is 43 and also balancing retirement savings vs mortgage/student debt, the notion of "just throw more money into your 401k" is an absurd suggestion.<br /><br /> And I and my wife have decent salaries and job-related pensions to back us up. We're the fortunate ones. The lower 80% of income earners deserve so much more than what this country has given to them, but far too few seem to care to demand that. Too busy just surviving, I guess<br /><br /> Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-14200077994211111472018-01-09T22:51:17.955-06:002018-01-09T22:51:17.955-06:00Amen, Jake.
Goes a long way to describe why there...Amen, Jake.<br /><br />Goes a long way to describe why there's such income equality. I have some savings, but not nearly what's needed for retirement (and I'm planning forward to work into older age, simply because working gives people a reason to live). So I'll work 'till the day I die.<br /><br />I completely understand what millenials are going through (I was a later college student who now lives under debt peonage), yet am 59, an age where few companies want to employ you, no matter what your experience, knowlege, etc., could bring to their table.<br /><br />This whole situation is a prescription for ill, yet how can the mainstream just let it slide like everything's OK?<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com