On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 6:05:13 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-11-13 3:22 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > My advice to everyone is to retire while you still can, longevity is
> > not promis ed to anyone. If you don't have enough money to retire at
> > 60 you won't have enough at 70 and you'll have even less at 80 if you
> > last that long. The time to begin planning for retirement is before
> > you're ten years old... every ten your old should have a savings
> > account.
> >
>
>
> Thank goodness I had a good pension plan at work. Thank goodness it was
> a government job at a time when the political agenda was to cut civil
> service jobs and one way was to offer early retirement packages,
> dropping the age and time factor from 90 to 80. I was retired at 53. I
> have been having a great time and keep myself busy.
>
> I knew several guys at work who retired at 65 and died within a year.
> One lasted only a month or two. The worst I heard of was a guy who went
> out to his retirement party and died on the way home.

On the other hand, once you're dead it doesn't really matter how
much Social Security you drew or whether you died in the saddle
or the retirement home. You're just as dead either way. I'd
rather bet on living a long time and working to not outlive
my retirement savings.

Cindy Hamilton