Green Retirement

 Floor of the U.S. Senate

Question:  What’s the difference between a Republican and a Democrat?  Answer:  The difference between a whore and a prostitute.
The U.S. Senate on March 4th 2010, voted down a bill, that would have given Seniors who will not see any increase in their Social Security benefits this year, a paltry $250 check.  […]

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The man responsible for creating the calculation for when you can collect Social Security died today at age 97.  Robert Myers worked for FDR and came up with the calculation for the launch of Social Security.
He was tasked to figure out, at what age workers could retire and begin collecting Social Security checks, and not […]

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Boomers Getting High in Retirement
The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 per cent to 2.9 per cent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Full article here.
The rise was most dramatic among 55-to 59-year-olds, […]

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Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich is set to introduce legislation, which would lower the retirement age, in an effort to lower unemployment.  An idea first proposed here on the Green Retirement Blog back in October of 2008.
Under the Kucinich plan, the first million workers who choose to participate, would be able to begin receiving Social […]

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 Stop San Francisco School Teacher Layoffs
Update:  The San Francisco Unified School District has announced that it will be laying off more than 900 San Francisco school teachers and administrators.  While it may be too late to prevent the layoffs, If you receive a pink slip from the school district, do yourself a favor and try […]

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the immediate layoffs of 1,000 Los Angeles city employees, who only a day earlier thought their families had won a reprieve from financial ruin, when the Los Angeles City Council delayed their layoff decision to seek alternative methods for saving their jobs.
Los Angeles government workers got one night’s good […]

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Kurt Warner retired early from football.  No longer willing to take the beating he was getting on the job, Kurt Warner retired with one year left on his contract, giving up a reported $11 million.
Having accomplished much more in his career, than most NFL quarterbacks ever do, Kurt Warner decided to leave the game while […]

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In a matter of moments, the U.S. Senate will vote to re-confirm Ben Bernanke, for another term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.   A monumental mistake by the Senate, that is yet one more example, of how Washington is in the pocket of Wall Street.
Back in September 2007 when the credit crisis began, I […]

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Victory!  The Budget Deficit Commission is Dead!  Democratic and Republican Senators afraid of being defeated this coming November by equally angry conservative and liberal voters, joined together in a bi-partisan effort to defeat Obama’s effort at robbing your retirements to pay down the deficit. Victory! 
Stop the Budget Deficit Commission! The Obama White House and Congress […]

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After months of “The Dollar is crashing!  The Dollar is crashing!” stories, the U.S. Treasury Dept. reports today that “foreigners” purchased a net record $114.5 billion of U.S. Treasuries in November 2009.  Reports of the Dollar’s death, as Mark Twain would say, have been greatly exaggerated.
What’s going on? The dollar was supposed to crash and […]

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