Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 29, 2019

He’s got a rollover retirement plan.

His company had a retirement plan? Golly!

A good investment strategy, no funeral expenses, more money for your wife to live off and no cementery cost.

It’s a Hole of Life benefit.

It’s an addendum to the Health Plan.

Not bad. Hammock to grave coverage.

“SQUIRREL!”

Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket…

After Ronald Reagan started ‘saving’ the middle class I knew it was time to abandon the private sector and go Civil Service. I’ve got a pension and full medical while plenty of folks I know had their great 401[k]‘s wiped out by Dubya’s efforts.

He has a better retirement plan than I do.

and the squirrel calls first dibs on the vacant hammock

Tis exactly the GOP plan for the American people excepting a small sliver of the folks “in the money.”

That dismount from the hammock (before the final one) is going to be very interesting to watch.

Some kid’s gonna build a fort in that hole.

And they provide free termites for those trees! Golden parachute not included.

Just getting in could be the death of him.

I dig it. ;-}

Back in the ‘80s I was interviewing with a company and the HR person blathered on and on about the retirement plan. I told her that at 32, I didn’t care, and that I doubted the company would last until I was 65. Well, it went bankrupt about 15 years later because it couldn’t meet the retirement plans’ requirements.

Ralph Drabble needs to talk to this guy . . .

Works for me.

Long-Term plan – may not be long – IF he’s not pretty agile.

Cradle to grave.

Bury me in my overalls, don’t use my gabardines.

Bury me in my overalls or in my beat-up jeans.

I wonder how long he plans to hang around?

Most companies have a “Retirement Plan.” About the time you become a senior employee, you’ll do something for which you can be summarily dismissed “with cause.” Then your spot can be filled with a much younger and much less paid employee, thus reducing the bottom line. But your age had nothing to do with it, trust us on this! /s

If that squirrel is looking for a nut, I think she’s found one.

was in the pipefitters Union ,I was Union steward put in place a pension worked until I could collectt it and loving it

In the long term, we are all dead.

The squirrel has scissors.

My retirement plan involves heavy drinking and comic books.

I read somewhere that the average person incurs about half of her or his lifetime total of medical expenses in the last 6 months of life. Seems that we should be able to find a better way of using that money for the benefit of the survivors instead of somebody for whom it’s clearly just buying an extra week or two.

The company pays him a little higher wage, provides lousy health coverage with a huge deductible and affordable “long-term” care. Which in this case, a six foot deep hole in the ground.

In Oregon, we have the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that is $25.3 BILLION underfunded. Many employees retired with their full salary, some at six figures and a handful at seven figures. The vast majority received about $3,000 or less a month. A lion’s share of tax revenue goes to PERS, because employers pay less into PERS than required, forcing the state to rob Peter to pay Paul from the state coffers.

There is no good solution to employer sponsored retirement, pension or 401(k) are both risky scenarios. Saving early, regularly and conservatively investing is probably a person’s best bet to retirement.

In the meantime you can use it as an outhouse.

Just remember to cut Both Ropes at the Same Time or he won’t Drop straight down.

She might want to Practice a few times before the Main Event.

I remember hearing about companies that gave retiring employees a gold watch. I didn’t get anything.

Gives a whole new meaning to “Dropping off the twig”.

Looks better than the plan I got when I retired disabled. But I’m going to be cremated. Just add some combustibles to the hole when the time comes. I wonder if the neighbors will mind?

GOP retirement plan: Your retirement is death.