Thursday, June 2, 2011

Your biggest fear

For years now it seems the biggest fear on the doomer blogs is we'll all wind up working as greeters at Walmart. It's become a cliche, a no-longer witty punchline to whatever snarky comment is being discussed.
  • "Those realturds aren't fit for being Walmart greeters."
  • "We are a Walmart nation."
  • "With the government cutbacks, what are these people gonna do? Work at Walmart as a greeter?"
  • "We can't touch teacher pensions. You expect them to be Walmart greeters when they're 60?"
Really? Working as a Walmart greeter is the worst possible fate you can think of as you reach 60+? I can think of plenty of fates that are far worse.

7 comments:

Dan from Madison said...

As hard as I am working right now, I am looking forward to being a Walmart greeter. I may as well keep working until I am dead, I won't be getting any ss anyway.

NoVa Sideliner said...

Indeed you might not get any SS, not if they means-test it, as some candidates are already talking about.

Yeah, there's a great incentive to saving: Work hard, be frugal, save for retirement... and get your SocSec cut as punishment for your good deeds!

(I think I've heard this talk from Mitch Daniels and Tim Pawlenty. There are probably more, too.)

Anonymous said...

All legal work is honorable, not tragic.

Steve-O said...

Assistant crack-whore?

wv: brati

Steve-O said...

"China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills"

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/china-has-divested-97-percent-its-holdin

wv: taxhum

Steve-O said...

Wish I had some doomer porn for-a-postin'. The WVs are just awesome.

hongible?

Anonymous said...

Yaeh there are worse fates like trying to explain why Obama's economic policeies are working.

Man that'll be hard to spin even for Baghdad Bob.