Image: Nick Youngson, via The Blue Diamond Gallery/Creative Commons 3.0, http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/typewriter/s/social-security.html Social Security is unaffordable due to our aging population. Social Security is a driver of our national debt. Social Security is built on a house of cards – its assets are just IOUs. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. No doubt you have heard …

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Image: 401kcalculator.org via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/ayZi8V Thanks to determined, effective resistance by the American people, opponents of Social Security have failed so far to cut our earned benefits. But those opponents have succeeded in forcing neighborhood field offices to close, making those earned benefits more difficult to access. Under Republican control, Congressional budget cuts …

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"Retirement offshoring" is the little-discussed phenomenon of migration from North to South by retirees. A new book examines the lives of expats in Ecuador and their struggle to stay in the middle class. The movement of “snowbird” pensioners from cold Northern countries to warmer, Southern ones, illustrates that maintaining middle-classness into one’s golden years is …

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