So, that explains all these newly “married” guys running around with kids strapped to their chests.
And I thought they were just using them as fashion accessories.

Who knew they were part of gay retirement planning.

Luckily, I work for the state and am in the defined benefit pension plan. As long as they don’t take that away from me, I might get to retire on time.

Yes, it is almost certain now that W will go down in history as the 21st Century’s Hoover! What a fitting legacy for a failed presidency that should never have happened in the first place.

It is well deserved justice because, IMO, this administration has been a disgrace to what once was the greatest nation on earth: the swaggering, the “bring ‘em on”, the arrogance, the lying before Iraq, the “shock and awe” and collateral damage killing of civilians, the “Mission Accomplished”, the 4000 dead and tens of thousands maimed because of those lies, the fear mongering, the dissing of the French and anyone else with the balls to disagree, Karl Rove’s dirty tricks, the budget deficits and the looting of the Federal coffers by the drug companies, the $100s of billions in bailouts, the pain caused by this collapse of the free-market experiment, and on and on.

Although that is all so very sad, it warms the cockles of my heart to see them humiliated now, while they are still in office. And to see them hand-off power to a black Democrat and to a nearly filibuster proof Democratic congress, well that is just priceless! How far the prideful have fallen; how sweet it is to see.

Neo-conservatism, as is the fate of all extreme ideologies, is now relegated to the dustbin of history.

Let the restoration of the USA begin!

I’m also in TIAA-CREF from my years working at a university. I went mostly into CREF inflation-linked bonds last summer and am now out 5% for the year. But I do have a money market option. What is a shocker (to me) is that of the 10 options available to me, the CREF Real Estate is only down 2% for the year. I also can’t figure out how the CREF Social Choice option “only” lost 27% while the equity index (& other options) are off ~40%.

My husband’s rollover 401K has been beaten down so badly that he’s given up, rolled it over, and essentially uses the account for daytrading.

We do have another 25-30 years before we retire penniless and move in with our children.

The Rich People of the United States of America have lived fat and happy for the last 28 years with my political party’s successful assault against the marginal tax rates on the highest tax brackets of our nation. I have started to recognize the wealthy as that nice national piggy bank that we all have been putting our coins in for 28 years. There is more money within the wealthy of this country than anywhere else on Earth, worth more than all the oil in Saudi Arabia. Now, it is time to…crack the bank. The elites on both sides have been fighting for nearly three decades over this issue, and finally, enough working folk saw through the abortion smokescreen and other GOP manufactured issues designed to divide the proletariat that a LIBERAL was elected…oops…along with a liberal dominated Congress.

The vicious McCain-Palin campaign was not about race or terrorism or Communism, folks. It was about taxes. Don’t worry, keep voting against me and my political party, and enjoy our “savings” and look forward to a nice retirement.

We are already missing now 6 or 7 of the S&P500 stocks right? That puts about 1.4% to $0.