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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (4621)2/19/2008 1:16:40 PM
From: Lane3   of 42652
 
You have to save a lot to maintain your standard of living (except perhaps if you where starting with a low standard of living). Many people don't do that.

Fortunately, most people don't have to maintain their standard of living. There's something about getting older that seems to turn off the spending gene. I see it happening all around me. I rarely buy anything anymore. I used to have a good twenty feet of hanging closet space crammed full. Now I have two and I don't wear half what's there. People who haven't experiences this may think that old people don't spend because they can't afford it. With the very poor, certainly that's the case. But for most people, the slippers they bought twenty years ago are simply perceived to "still have a lot of wear left in them."
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