If you’re one of those people who think we have elections too often in this country and think the system is a creation of the modern political parties, think again. The basis for the government and how we elect our representatives was conceived by our Founding Fathers. They wanted to be sure their could be [...]
Citizens are in accord that governments are either unwilling or incapable of cutting spending. The bloated workforce, unrealistic salaries and sweetheart benefits packages are obvious places to cut. But it will take more than firing unneeded bureaucrats and realigning salaries as well as pensions to make a dent in the debt run up at the [...]
Two years ago, at just about this point on the pre-election calendar, people of all ages were wearing pins , donning T-shirts and slapping stickers on their cars in support of the idea of hope and change as the battle cry for fixing whatever was wrong with America.
Today, there is growing anger among many regarding [...]
New Seniors, those born between 1930 and 1945, have had a good run. We’re a positive lot and expect life will be even more rewarding to the end and beyond. As life continues to expand, so do our horizons, spheres of influence and the opportunities to be of service. Yet, with the state of the [...]
We worked, we saved and we believed retirement could be a relatively stable period for us. Boy, were we wrong. The lose of value in our pension accounts, low returns on the investments we still had, home prices falling, freezing of Social Security benefits and severe cut backs in Medicare add up to fear of [...]
