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Yea, just glad I saved, my dad saved, and I was lucky enough to retire\u2026 This is crazy..<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s President Reagan\u2019s former budget advisor David Stockman in the Daily Reckoning:<\/p>\n
[A]ccording to the Social Security Administration\u2019s wage records, there were 100 million workers who held any kind of paying job during 2013, who earned a collective total of just $1.65 trillion that year. That amounts to the incredibly small sum of just $16,500 per average worker. And not for a small slice of the labor force but fully two-thirds of all Americans with a job. <\/p>\n
No wonder we have so many on \u201cfree\u201d status.. although a lot of the \u201cwelfare\u201d recipients also have jobs? that makes it even worse.. Maybe our illustrious <\/p>\n
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