http://www.democraticunderground.com/1183551Oh my.
trof (43,366 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2013, 06:21 PM
Increasing your lifespan and going broke. A quandary:
NPR had a segment on 'reservatrol' (?)
It'the stuff in grape skins that is supposed to be really good for you, fights and prevents diseases, etc., and now scientists say it may extend life expectancy.
A lot.
Here's the quandary
I'm 71. I've planned my life and retirement so that (hopefully) I won't run out of money before I die.
But what if i had the choice to extend my life by 10 or 20 or even 30 years?
I sure haven't planned for that financially.
It's too late to start over now.
It's a puzzlement.
Duer 157099 (16,116 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2013, 06:25 PM
1. Resveratrol
Same quandry here. But I take it anyway.
Downwinder (6,797 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2013, 07:00 PM
2. Don't have that problem. I'm broke already.
Laurian (921 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2013, 07:54 AM
5. We've probably all made some regretable decisions over a lifetime, but the thing that screwed us the most as we entered retirement was the financial meltdown. That was done "to" us, not "by" us, and will impact how the rest of our lives will be managed.
Just gotta go with the flow, now.
Paper Roses (4,549 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2013, 05:25 PM
6. Same age, same quandary.
Living on SS now is hard enough, imagine what it would be like in the years to come?
No extra $$ now, let alone $$ for 10 years from now.
Who would have guessed?
^^^the chronically-helpless primitive who, when she wants to replace a burnt-out light-bulb, goes to ask the primitives which way it's supposed to be turned as she tries to put it in.
She's also, like her pal the pie-and-jam primitive, the "grasswire" primitive, a notorious pack-rat, buying up old goods thinking she's going to become rich.....some day.....selling them. About a year ago, she whined about the congestion in her house, and hired someone else to cart it away and sell it for her.
Once her house was empty, she jammed it full again.....
Anyway, this is directed to the chronically-helpless primitive: you voted for it. Live with it. Suffer. Tough shit.
Social Security would be plenty secure and plenty lush if it had been restricted only to those who paid into it, and only at the age of 65 years and over.
But no; for years and decades and probably even a couple of generations, the chronically-helpless primitive constantly voted for politicians who handed out the money to every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
And now we're at the crunch-point. There's no more money to give away; the program has to be scaled back.
And guess who's going to be the first to suffer.
Tough shit. You voted for it, idiot.
