I was a small business owner for over 30 years. After becoming disabled and needing to collect SSI at age 62 I have realized that l cannot continue to live below the poverty level here in the USA. I have already used my small IRA savings to live on, however I have discovered I can live comfortably in Thailand and that is where I will relocate. It is disheartening that in America we have "corporate interests" put above the "needs of the...
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Mark Werner
Just another story of corporations selling out their employees. Alcan Packaging owned by Rio Tinto sells to Bemis Corporation. Bemis declares that it has bought only assets and all the liabilities including the pension are Rio's problem. Of course Rio says the sale ends the pension and everything is frozen and we are changing all the rules. It looks like we will be lucky to get some amount when we're...
John O'Connor
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Honestly, there’s a mystery as to what the provisions would be and will they take away from my standing benefits. And furthermore, will we be taxed? There’s a lot of rumors that we will be taxed, and I feel that’s terribly unfair due to the fact that the big banks, insurance companies, and Wall Street were...
Jim Chickneas
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From my perspective, knowing that the benefits were there kept me perhaps more loyal than somebody else would be if they had been faced with the same working conditions that we had been faced with.
The idea of having a stable retirement in my opinion is a much more realistic and more generally useful objective...
Anna Mae and Jack Brennan
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