DYING AT MY DESK

I got confirmation today on my oft-stated "I can't afford to retire, I'm going to have to die at my desk". As of right now, social security, you know, the unconstitutional federal retirement payment plan devised during the FDR administration, is finally at the point where it is paying out more than it takes in. By 2017, a mere eight years from now, the fund will be entirely bankrupt. I'll be sixty-two. Do the math.

You see, this could have been dealt with during the Carter administration, but he was too busy developing "stagflation", gas lines and the U.S. Department of Education. Reagan attempted a fix, but, because he had a Democrat congress, zip. Bush the elder, Clinton and Bush the evil (as my liberal friends think of him) had similar success. Now that we have a savior in the Oval Office, a man who has super-human abilities, the intention, I suppose, as is his only plan of action, is to spend our way out of this problem also. Look what his spending has accomplished thus far.

Anyway, with the latest economic downturn, my IRA taking a 50% hit and a recovery really distant, I have little hope to retain my accustomed lifestyle, and you all know how extravagantly I presently live, especially while earning the same amount I did nine years ago. At least I have my health...so far.