Ed, Where can we hide?
I have studied hard and obtained 2 and 1/2 college degrees, have worked
overtime for 34 years, and have downsized as companies closed down five times.
There is no chance that Bethlehem Steel will ever hire me back. Same to say
for the rest. I have saved some in my 401 K. I have earned social security.
I have a small defined company pension. Got it while they were still giving
it. The sum total is nothing glorious; however I did what they told me and
kept my nose to the grindstone. I hope to have a used car in my future. Many
are worse off.
I have been doing contracts and have recently noted that nobody wants you much
over 60. They don't want you full time after 42. . They want a young man that
they can dispose of. They want to set him up for no job after forty. They
want the middle age man just in case business conditions warrant that they
might need him for a longer time. I have no clue what the young man is going
to do. Who is my dentist going to bill excessively?
Where do we go after 60 when all of the savings and entitlements are gone? I
don't have another life time to do it again? There are a lot of us in this
boat. I have been told that the Obama Care death panel may have an answer.
Surely it will not end like this, this is America, it will be better. There
may even be new productive opportunities begging to be filled. Maybe the
assets invented in the entitlements will soar to new heights.
What is your plan Ed? Please let me know.
Frank Znidarsic
