a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote in news:PiU1R.160904$79B9.28240@fx14.iad:------
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/guess-percent-retirees-1-million-1801055
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Can You Guess What Percent of Retirees Have $1 Million Saved? Here's
The Average Net Worth Of People 65 and Up
----------The idea of retiring with a $1 million nest egg has been sold as the
finish line for decadesrCobut for most retirees, that number is out of
reach.
Data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, shows
that only 4.7% of Americans have at least $1 million saved in
retirement-specific accounts such as 401ks and IRAs. Just 1.8% have $2
million, and only 0.8% have saved $3 million or more.
What Most Retirees Have in Retirement AccountsAnd this is all buy design by billionaires. The poorer YOU are, the
Here's how savings actually look for retirees when split by age group,
according to the same Federal Reserve dataset:
Age 65 to 74
Average retirement savings: $609,230
Median retirement savings: $200,000
Age 75 and over
Average retirement savings: $462,410
Median retirement savings: $130,000
While those averages may seem comforting, the median reveals the
reality most people face. Half of retirees 75 and over have less than
$130,000 savedrCoa figure that doesn't stretch far when you factor in
rising medical costs, inflation, and daily living expenses.
In fact, according to Fidelity, older Americans should aim to have
around 10 times their pre-retirement income saved by age 67 to
maintain their standard of living. The gap between that target and
actual savings underscores why many retirees are left navigating tough
financial choices.
richer THEY are.
"Person Familiar With the Matter"-a wrote in message news:10j920s$jv5n$1@dont-email.me...
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of
doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.rCY rCoCharles Bukowski --------------
A rare poster who knows of Bukowski.
https://www.coleschafer.com/blog/charles-bukowski-quotes
https://www.coleschafer.com/blog/charles-bukowski-quotes
"Stephen Harding"-a wrote in message news:10jdjt4$1uq99$2@dont-email.me...
On 1/2/26 6:23 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
https://www.coleschafer.com/blog/charles-bukowski-quotes
I confess to never having heard of him.
He's got some great lines and some rather depressing or vulgar as well.
I especially liked line #76:-a "Cheer up. Maybe yourCOll be famous after yourCOre dead."
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Like so many artists and "visionaries" he was valuable for his
observations but not so much for the unproductive, self-indulgent and dissolute lifestyle he felt they justified. Another left-glorified poet, Arthur Rimbaud, went on to selling obsolete guns to African rebels.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/972/pg972-images.html
"Person Familiar With the Matter"-a wrote in message news:10jdp4j$210gf$1@dont-email.me...
The Preface piqued my interest. It makes a good read on a Sunday morning
of the new year.-a Thanks for posting the URL. Your summation of Charles Bukowski's life is brilliant. I would surmise that he would approve of
your comments about his relative worth, if he were alive today. ----------------------
39. "The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse
than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
39. "The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse
than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same
turd."
"Person Familiar With the Matter"-a wrote in message news:10je7bh$264s6$1@dont-email.me...
On 1/4/2026 8:11 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
39. "The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse
than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same
turd."
That's laugh out loud funny.
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Sci-fi author (with Larry Niven) and aerospace engineer Jerry Pournelle whose blog I followed and occasionally corresponded with was a strong contrast, a very sociable fellow with a large circle of writer and
scientist friends and admirers.
"Person Familiar With the Matter"-a wrote in message news:10jehn8$29prc$1@dont-email.me...
I remember occasionally reading Pournelle's column in Byte Magazine back
in the '80s and '90s.-a I briefly wrote a column in Computer Shopper on
the subject of the TRS 80 Color Computer.-a I liked Pournelli and Mondo
2000 magazine's Xandor Speaks column.-a I was a fan of Terrence McKenna (spelling?) who wrote articles dealing with his experiences taking
Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungles and peyote in the Southwestern United
States, somehow melding his drug experiences with emerging technology. --------------------------------
I was very impressed by the Color Computer's 6809 CPU and instruction
set but was already too committed to Intel architecture in my slowly
growing wire wrapped home-brew computer. I used the CoCo's Motorola
graphics chip with built-in character generator when I acquired a CRT to replace the Teletype.
"Person Familiar With the Matter"-a wrote in message news:10jetkf$2dk96$1@dont-email.me...
The Motorolla 6809B CPU was used on the early Space Shuttles with
Microware's OS-9 operating system -- the same combo used by Tandy on the Color Computer II. I programmed Servo Track Writers using MASM
(Microsoft Assembler) and 6809 processors when I worked for Miniscribe / Maxtor, where they built hard drives for IBM AT personal computers. I
still have a Color Computer II, but lost the RF interface needed to
connect it to an NTSC television, which I no longer have.-a It's sort of
like having a 78 rpm phonograph with no records to play on it, LOL.
---------------------------------
I didn't know there was a rad-hard version of the 6809. My HDTVs accept
NTSC as well as ATSC.
I was tasked to design a controller for an early bare 10MB Fujitsu hard drive, to see if I could as I was a tech studying engineering, but I was still digesting the complexities of the FDD track format in the WD1771
app note and hadn't progressed beyond stepping and reading the head when
the WD surface mount controller card appeared. For my homebrew I built
an FSK modem for a cassette recorder. I programmed it first with minicomputer-style toggle switches, then an octal keypad until my editor/assembler was adequate to type in a program and document the
existing hand-coded ones. It had fully served its purpose when I was promoted to designing and programming.
Do you know any tricks to avoid the slowdown of Shingled Magnetic
Recording? WD support "confirmed" that wiping free space doesn't help
and the one USB drive I checked doesn't appear to support Trim.
Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil,
Ruprecht ||| <necht@heidel.berg> wrote in
news:20260107134610.0a398cdb@z-z:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 20:45:16 -0600Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil, sell it and put the money in offshore account?
phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote:
the right fool themselves into
believing they are always right and that everyone else is out to get
them
who stuffed the nation with illegal migrans and gangbanger criminals
from Vemezuela, dipshit?
"Ruprecht |||" wrote in message news:20260107224847.00cc9445@z-z...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:56:05 -0000 (UTC)
Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil,
Exxon I hope.
If not...Oxy.
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Chevron still operates there, otherwise their oil industry would
collapse like sugar in Cuba. https://www.dw.com/en/why-us-giant-chevron-not-china-may-save-oil-rich-venezuela/a-75117400
"Output had peaked at almost 2 million bpd in 2015 before sliding
steadily due to years of mismanagement, corruption and chronic underinvestment."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
"...Cuba now imports sugar to meet domestic demand..."
Naturally they blame the US rather than toxic socialist policy for
their inability to maintain a self supporting economy themselves.
They "deserve" handouts they won't pay for.
Communism was designed to appeal to and recruit the low achieving
masses (takers) who blame others for their self-created problems, it
promises them that society will assume their support after their
parents stop, ignoring that parasites starve without hosts. Actually
it supports only the self-appointed elite who promote and control it.
That is the poetic justice the Left suffers when they gain the power
they envy and the responsibility they can't handle, like the Dark Age
that followed the defeat of Rome.
China stopped suffering after the catastrophic Great Leap Forward
(Stalin's solution) when they adopted a version of Lenin's New
Economic Policy that no longer demonized and punished superior
ability. The NEP failed in Russia because Lenin died of strokes
without a capable successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Zhou Enlai was the brain behind Chinese success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Modernizations
Knecht Ruprecht is Santa's helper who punishes the naughty children. Heidelberg was delightful when I was stationed there but the local
Swabian dialect can be difficult. I heard "across the old bridge"
said as "uba da brick".
"Ruprecht |||" wrote in message news:20260107224847.00cc9445@z-z...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:56:05 -0000 (UTC)
Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil,
Exxon I hope.
If not...Oxy.
-----------------------------
Chevron still operates there, otherwise their oil industry would
collapse like sugar in Cuba. https://www.dw.com/en/why-us-giant-chevron-not-china-may-save-oil-rich- venezuela/a-75117400
"Output had peaked at almost 2 million bpd in 2015 before sliding
steadily due to years of mismanagement, corruption and chronic underinvestment."
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