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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 6080148, member: 31286&quot;]BTW, were you thinking that Social Security, when it was originally passed, was something &quot;extra?&quot;.&nbsp; It was passed and accepted because so many people in their later years (which in those days was people lot of people over 50 - &quot;most&quot; people lived by the sweat of their labor, so...&nbsp; can&#039;t work, no money) were INDIGENT!&nbsp; The country was overwhelmed with older people who couldn&#039;t support themselves.&nbsp; Your children were your retirement plan.&nbsp; Are you planning to support your parents in their old age?&nbsp; Whew, I am so grateful I didn&#039;t have to and I&#039;ve worked like hell to be sure my kids don&#039;t have to support me - but in 19th and first half of the 20th century, that was a way of life.&nbsp; Mom, or Dad, or both move in with us.&nbsp; Savings?&nbsp; not so much.&nbsp; Got a valuable suburban house to sell.... ? not in those days.&nbsp; Life is better for us now.&nbsp; I&#039;m grateful for that and I hope it continues ...&nbsp; for my sake, my children and my grandchildren.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wish everyone could save money, but I have learned that not everyone can - it&#039;s not easy to do.&nbsp; It takes all of those things I mentioned before - luck, talent, hard work, and I would add the environmental circumstances to access opportunity - but then I think that is part of &quot;lucK&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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