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Old 01-20-2004, 08:50 AM   #15 (permalink)
Rodney
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Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town
Little or nothing, but then I'm out of work and back in school, and the wife's job is at least paying our expenses. And though we've got savings and a paid-off house, we still worry about the future -- like, when we're older and nobody wants to hire us for a job that has good health insurance. Actually, that's a concern right now for my wife, although the field I want to go into routinely offers health insurance (not very good insurance, though).

Honestly, I admire those of you who are saving for starting now. The average american household puts a big 2 percent of income into savings -- that's down from 8 percent 20 years ago, and even then we thought that was low -- the Japanese were saving 20-25 percent in those days. Too many people are too much in debt these days. Here's a scary article:

http://www.dailypress.com/business/l...ess-localheads

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