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The problem is...

... that there are a huge # of citizens who are totally incapable of managing their own retirement funds. You may not live in an area where the average IQ is maybe 100 or so. You can't educate these people to handle their own funds. Many of them can't even handle a bank account. The guy down the street who used to do some handiwork for me does not have a bank account. The one time I wrote him a check, he couldn't cash it and I had to rewrite it to his cousin who then deposited it in his account and gave the guy the money. There are more people like that than you realize. So, do these people simply not get to retire? They have to spend their entire lives up to 80 years old, if they live that long, working because they can't comprehend how to manage retirement funds?

Tom, sometimes I wonder where the hell you live. It certainly isn't in the land of reality. I have noted an inclination on the part of Republicans to think that people who CAN'T take care of themselves, should just be shoved aside to rot and die.

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