Reply #28: I'm sorry it has been so tough for you. [View All]

I think that a lot of people who feel pretty confident should read your story. It is based on experience, not dreams.

Most of us have a crisis or two in life that set us back financially and put and end to our retirement plans. And very few Americans now can look forward to productive years after the age of 62.

It gets harder and harder to get a job that lets you pay the basic bills, put shoes on your feet, see the doctor when necessary and still save for retirement.

That's why Americans have asked the government to take their Social Security savings out of their paychecks and invest it in America.

Apparently the Bushes and Reagan and possibly Clinton just threw our money away. It is unbelievable. How is it possible that any member of Congress who voted for the war budgets can get re-elected in 2012?

None of them thought about the repercussions of what they were doing. They all made short-term decisions, panicked decisions, decisions based only on calculations concerning the likelihood they would make it through the next election.

They need to apologize for their poor judgment or simply resign.