There are a few places here that give it to you at 55. Heck yeah I've been taking whenever I can. Can't fight old age might as well take advantage of some of its perks. But I guess someone here will call that welfare too.
Your fellow man are only emulating what they see being allowed by the leaders of the economy. People see corporations getting away with taking, so they also want an angle to get their piece. How can you blame them? People like being trendy, and when leaders show its en vogue to legally take, steal and pillage then many of the surfs also try to play that game.
And what if the market crashes when you're ready to retire? And you end up like the poor suckers at Enron? All of that SS that you invested would be gone! Like I said, if that ever becomes an option bankruptcy should not be allowed and no other helpful benefits should be allowed either. You gamble and you lose, too bad!
Well, no argument there, so they both suck.
Is that your understanding of investment? All eggs in one basket?
Ive done the math. At 62 it will take 10 years before I would catch up to what I could get waiting to 67. So that puts me at 72 with 10 years of enjoyable retirement under my belt. So at 67 I would only have 5 years to 72 in which I may be even more wore out from working to death. So my plan is to take it asap and get as much as possible before Im dirt surfin.
