Retirement's on the house
Bankrate.com Jun 1 2005 12:06AM GMT

Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com - MIDDLE RIVER, Md. -- If it's a clear morning, you can count on seeing 80-year-old Junior K. Paugh strolling streets that tell his life story: Propeller Drive, Fuselage Avenue, Cockpit Street, Compass Road. He's been here more than 60 years, ever since aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin put him to work making seaplanes and bombers at the defense plant down the road. Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and Martin himself walked the factory floor, urging on workers as the nation went to war.

Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net
<a href="http://villageNews.weblogger.com/discuss/msgReader$14286">Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net</a> Out of that perilous time came Paugh's now predictable world. He never is short of money, thanks to Social Security and his company pension that will last as long as he does. Health care costs him next to nothing, thanks to Medicare and retiree health insurance. His Baltimore County home is long paid for, thanks in part to a below-market price of $4,400, a result of wartime subsidies for defense-related housing construction.

Toronto Star Feature About UFCW's Pension Adventures
These guys (trustees) don't give a shit that there conduct could potentially harm the future retirements of their members. They wiil (trustees)get a pension irrespective of the millions of dollarsthey irresponsibly flushed down the toilet. It doesn't affect their future retirement, it affects someone elses, their members. Therefore, they will behave as if nothings wrong, because as far as they are concerned there is nothing wrong, therepension...

Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net
5/15/05 Russakogg, Wa. Post, Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net...

Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net: Social Security Is Least of Newer Generations' Worries
Excerpt: "[The retirement security] vision is being supplanted by one President Bush calls the Ownership Society, in which the burdens of economic security -- and ... the rewards--shift back to individuals. Social Security is only one aspect of the shift. The safety net big companies wove ...--long-term employment, pension security, retiree health insurance--has been giving way for so long that its unraveling is mere background accompaniment to Washington's noisy debate over Social Security." (The Washington Post; one-time registration required)

Retirement's just a theory
He looks to be somewhere in his 50s. His enthusiasm for his material and his students might make you think even younger.

Retirement's Instruction Manual
The humorist Mason Cooley once said, "In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential."

Kern County DA's office to see retirement, cuts
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. The Kern County District Attorney's office is bracing for a wave of retirements and budget crunches that may mean fewer attorneys prosecuting cases.

New Jay-Z: 'Dear Summer'
Thanks Noz. Retirement's treating Jigga well....

No Retirement Announcements at High Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The mystery surrounding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's future took much of the attention Monday as the Supreme Court finished its business with no retirements. Rehnquist, who is 80 and has cancer, could step down anytime. He chose not to make any comments about his plans while ...

American Council of Life Insurers Has Issued Its Retirement Security Agenda
Excerpt: "'People are living longer, and they need to be educated on the importance of preparing for retirements that could last 20 years, 30 years or more,' said Frank Keating, President and CEO of the ACLI, Washington. The report, 'Retiring in the 21st Century: A National Retirement Agenda,' calls on those crafting the nation's retirement laws and policy to establish incentives for workers to increase long-term savings and to use annuities to assure a steady income stream in retirement." (American Council of Life insurers)