I had Accounting class last night, which gave me the perfect excuse to ignore the President’s SOTU speech. Not that I would have watched it anyway.
Best morning-after quote goes to Jesse at Pandagon:
I honestly do think there was a typo in the propoganda sheet: this is the pwnership society, where we all get pwned by the government.
If that makes no sense to you, here’s a translation. In the wonderful world of gaming, when you utterly and completely kick someone or something’s ass, you ‘pwn’ it.
Seriously, though, what on earth is BushCo thinking with these proposed changes to Social Security? An ‘ownership society’ where you do not in fact own your own private account and any money left in it goes right back to the goverment when you die? If you’re not going to make a real change in the structure of Social Security, then why do it at all?
On a personal note, the debate about Social Security has gotten Scott and I to talk a bit about retirement planning. We’re going to have to ramp up our savings somehow, although how exactly we’re going to do that with me in school and a bunch of debt already is unclear. We do have several 401ks already but haven’t done much contributing the last 3 years or so due to our lowered incomes. Realistically we won’t be able to save much of anything until I’m back in the workforce full-time, and that’s 2 years off (and another student loan to pay off). It’s a little scary when I think about how badly we’re doing in retirement planning. So I try not to.
The one thing I do know is that should the BushCo plan come to pass, this family is not diverting one penny of their $ into a so-called ‘private account’.