Hey fatass, I’m not doing it to motivate you.

Because it’s not fat shaming if you are doing it to yourself in good fun.

I can’t tell if your being sarcastic. If you are I will tell you that the shame I felt for myself lost me 1oo lbs. Coddling got me nowhere before that.

I thought grass height varied based of species? Bermuda has a recommended height of 1-2 inches based on a Texas A&M publication.

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My parties sometimes have a big garbage can that is filled with various beverages for my guests to consume.

Well lets see...according to this I’ll be paying about 11,000 a year more in taxes. I’m currently paying $110 a month insurance premium for myself and my family. Even taking into account my $2,000 deductible, the numbers clearly do not add up.

Seeing what I would pay extra with Sanders’ plan scares the life out of me and I’m not rich at all. Caption is dead wrong.

That Bern everyone is feeling is their money catching fire.

Cool. Can you show me where it will offset $16,000 for me?

Brace yourself!

Big tax increases, mostly on the rich, to pay for big programs.

Does not jive with the graphic.

Now in my 5th year or so of using Mint to keep track of everything, I can’t imagine having more than two accounts and not keeping an eye on things. You don’t need to get crazy either. Just check once a week to make sure your bills will get paid, you have enough cash in the checking account and check nothing fishy came…

yeah, it sounds like s/he it was a bad plan. my employer just switched from one where i could just pick the direction (aggressive, moderate, conservative) to another fiduciary where I get to pick from various funds. I like having the more granular control. I agree with your assessment, while there are bad 401k plans,…

My thoughts exactly. There will always be some poor schmuck who lost it all on a wildly irresponsible investment strategy that acts as a poster boy for why we need SS.

MANY retirement funds were so heavily into ENRON

Who the hell put their entire 401(k) in Enron? I’m betting absolutely no one or less than 5 super idiots. Anyone who has responsibly invested in a broad portfolio or a broad index/target date fund has made, and will continue to make in the long term, money for retirement hand over fist.

references? care to expound?

Unmitigated disaster?
How so?
Mine hasn’t.
In fact, it’s one of the five legs of my five-legged — not three-legged — stool. And it’s my money.
Pension. Annuity. 401k. Iras. Social Security.
It’s all about your choices.

Now, should pension rules have been tougher and simpler for companies to abide by and workers rely on?…

That’s why most serious plans for fixing it involve a phased changeover to private accounts - something along the lines of "people over X keep on keeping on, people between X and Y go 50/50, and people younger than Y go full private." That provides the bridge funding (plus, in all likelihood, some rollover from the…