riding with General Custer, a few more battles with Indians and then I'll apply for pension

riding with General Custer, a few more battles with Indians and then I'll apply for pension

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Edward w Pritchard

Riding with General Custer, a few more battles with Indians and then I'll apply for pension.

A pension is a good thing to have but a difficult friend to wait for. Admired in a son in law is a fine pension. Leaned on in a spouse is a solid pension. Somehow the whole Suburban neighborhood out where I live is made up of lucky souls with good pensions.

How to survive the job until you can get the Pension? As General Custer's men knew before the Pension the job must supply good Health benefits; proper health insurance for a man and his family is a must. To collect the pension you must be alive.

Some folks, teachers and such make just a little money but somehow save a bundle into their pensions. It turns out to be a timely investment. No need for Teachers and Government employees to study the stock market or commodity future contracts to pad the 401K. Just don't take the lump sum option at retirement and the geniuses who run your State pension fund will pay back the money you invested in your pension fund at 12% return per annum over the entire time you worked. It adds up. If you can wait a hundred years to collect the first thousand you invested turns into one hundred thirty million after tax payer matching is figured in.

Envy not those lucky souls with pensions. They invested wisely and the invisible hand of Capitalism  rewards a proper choice of career.