Benghazi, Putin. How's Obama doing?

you lack the ability to think.

Then you should stop wasting your precious time on me.

The report by the US Senate intelligence committee is based on a close reading of more than six million classified documents and includes case studies on virtually every single prisoner held in CIA “black sites” since 2001.

Its damning conclusions were approved by the 15-member committee in December 2012 but have since been bitterly contested by the CIA. However a vote is now expected on Thursday to declassify a 400-page executive summary that could be published as early as this summer.

Roughly half of all U.S. families have no money set aside for retirement, Federal Reserve data show. Not a cent. But even that alarming savings deficit doesn't fully capture the emerging socioeconomic crisis facing what is, after all, a rapidly graying nation.

That's because even Americans who work diligently to prepare for their later years are falling behind, thwarted by a confusing, patchwork system that has placed the burden of saving for retirement squarely onto individuals...

Obama's utopia:

"What has happened over the last 20 or 30 years is a transfer of risk from employers to employees," said Anthony Webb, senior research economist with Boston College's Center for Retirement Research.

Retirement once included a combination of pension plans, social security, and personal savings, but that traditional three-legged stool of retirement is deteriorating. Outside of the public sector, Baby Boomers will be known as the last generation to enjoy pension plans. Hardly anyone in Generation X — those born from the 1960s to early 1980s — will have guaranteed benefits from their employers, while millennials won’t even know what pension plans are without looking them up on their smartphones.

...millions more find it hard or impossible to save, largely for reasons beyond their control. They are casualties of broad economic, social and other forces, from high unemployment, stagnant income and spiraling health care costs to eroding labor protections and rising income inequality. Behind these currents, as always, are political choices we make as a nation, along with the deep-pocketed special interests that steer public policy in ways that may not align with the common good.

Ninety-two percent of businesses between two and 20 employees offer no workplace savings, because it’s too complicated or they perceive it to be, or they don’t want the exposure to it. That percentage represents almost 4 million businesses or 40 million employees that don’t have the ability to save at work.”

Obama's utopia:

Quote:

Roughly half of all U.S. families have no money set aside for retirement, Federal Reserve data show. Not a cent. But even that alarming savings deficit doesn't fully capture the emerging socioeconomic crisis facing what is, after all, a rapidly graying nation.

That's because even Americans who work diligently to prepare for their later years are falling behind, thwarted by a confusing, patchwork system that has placed the burden of saving for retirement squarely onto individuals...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/danger-zone-americas-retirement-system-is-breaking-down/

A timely and important post from you. It's unfortunate that few on A2K will read it.