HELP Committee Hearing: The Retirement Crisis in America

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  • Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
  • Today, nearly half of Americans 55 and older have no retirement savings. Join me LIVE as the HELP Committee discusses what we must do to solve the retirement crisis facing working class Americans.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 135

  • @MelissaHobbs-qm8wi
    @MelissaHobbs-qm8wi 3 місяці тому +65

    Retirement planning is essential. Did you know that in certain regions, you need over a million dollars to retire comfortably?

    • @BrianCappsJohnson
      @BrianCappsJohnson 3 місяці тому +3

      Indeed, it's quite a sum. I've been retired for three years now, and I'm only 46.

    • @OliverLiam-px3vx
      @OliverLiam-px3vx 3 місяці тому +3

      That's impressive. How did you manage that?

    • @BrianCappsJohnson
      @BrianCappsJohnson 3 місяці тому +3

      That's where experts like Katherine C Boone come in. Her insights and guidance have been instrumental for many investors during these turbulent times.

    • @ScottLarrry
      @ScottLarrry 3 місяці тому +3

      Absolutely, Katherine has a knack for analyzing market trends and helping her clients make informed decisions.

    • @EricaWaters-lr6zw
      @EricaWaters-lr6zw 3 місяці тому +2

      Katherine C Boone? I've heard her trading calls across forex, stocks, and crypto have been the best in the last five years.

  • @nancywhitaker5096
    @nancywhitaker5096 3 місяці тому +22

    Worked for 48 years and only get 1200.00 a month SS. It's tuff going. Do something Bernie. please.

    • @alfx5432
      @alfx5432 3 місяці тому

      Same hear, people on ss need more money to live on.

  • @Parin101
    @Parin101 3 місяці тому +8

    Thank YOU

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @davesky538
    @davesky538 3 місяці тому +5

    I worked 40 years as a helicopter field mechanic. Very low wages. Raised 2 kids. Now on Social Security reaped from trickle down. 90% pays for housing. 401k put kids through college and gone. I am one of those seniors Bernie is talking about. I am seriously considering leaving USA to stay out of poverty. GOP MAGA party would literally rather have some kind of Warsaw like ghettos for us.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      They are pathologically ignorant by choice.
      They are almost worse than the elite voting for Trump out of pure, unadulterated greed.
      At least they admit it.
      That whole slew of hog mongers were primarily idiots looking for an excuse to get away with causing trouble.
      Idiots.
      Funny, whi’s gonna dix that chunk if the building, inside and out?
      Idiots.

  • @user-cario
    @user-cario 3 місяці тому +12

    Hit 200k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 7k in August 2023...

    • @essalvadormata4352
      @essalvadormata4352 3 місяці тому +2

      How did you do it? Do explain please 😯 My family have been into series of sufferings lately.

    • @user-cario
      @user-cario 3 місяці тому +2

      Thanks to Mr. Charles Lucas

    • @user-cario
      @user-cario 3 місяці тому +2

      He is a licensed broker here in the states,

    • @Ethan_01
      @Ethan_01 3 місяці тому +2

      I have heard a lot of wonderful things about Charles lucas on the news but didn't believe it until now. I'm definitely trying him out.

    • @tracylilian1886
      @tracylilian1886 3 місяці тому +2

      Same here, with my current portfoIio made from my lnvestments with my personaI financiaI advisor (Charles lucas) I totally agree with you.

  • @lindablackwell4852
    @lindablackwell4852 3 місяці тому +2

    Miss Grezler is wrong about seniors being richer than rest.
    Others are not aware also. Bernie is intelligent and empathetic. Ty Bernie 🔥 💚 💙👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿👍

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @craigtimmons6907
    @craigtimmons6907 3 місяці тому +4

    Bernie again on the correct and moral side of an issue

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @Grandhotel256
    @Grandhotel256 3 місяці тому +3

    Everything goes up every year except Social Security .. Bernie knows thank you Bernie you are the man..

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you Senator Sanders!

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +4

    All of the smaller Gramdma and Granpa farms are absorbed by the affluent when they go into the hospital or nursing homes. Houses, barns, sheds, trees, shrubs, and flowers are bulldozed and a gargantuan masion is built. A privacy fence is installed as the land is taken from the middle and lower class. Enormous farms can pass on all of their wealth while tiny farms disappear. All the while a misguided portion of our population praise the son of a failed slumlord.
    All public service retirement and healthcare should be placed on medicare and social security. All borrowed and unpaid amounts from the general fund should be drawn from Senate and House pay. All late fees nationwide generated from government shutdowns should be drawn from senate and House pay.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Wow. You do your homework!! Better than anything I could out iut.
      This may seem irrelevant, but ciuld you be kind 😜?
      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @gregorycarver9256
    @gregorycarver9256 3 місяці тому +2

    Bernie, I know it is difficult.. I think you are the best.. regardless.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @shellb1633
    @shellb1633 3 місяці тому +2

    Those young workers that Cassidy is talking about will have to take care of their parents 😡 Get these people OUT they are not for you.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      This is going to sound trivial at first.
      But please go up top and catch thode traditional union pieces out and about, relevant or otherwise?
      It’s a serious motivation!
      And s happy throwback forree how many gener? 👍🙂👍🤞

  • @1mightymouse
    @1mightymouse 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you, senators. Keep up the good fight.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up too: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can inly talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to some adaptations of ine message in order to make a handful without going blind?

  • @donnagraham8844
    @donnagraham8844 3 місяці тому +2

    You are a blessing from GOD Bernie and man needs to understand that God is still on the throne and when he's ready change is coming and only then will we all know his power. We need to love

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @mizb.9170
    @mizb.9170 3 місяці тому +9

    Finally !!!! That’s me, I’ve worked since I was 16 now am grateful to be in a subsidy apartment. Still food is hard to buy. Bless you Bernie although I don’t think our government really cares about us, we’re done working and are not making THEM money anymore. Don’t cut SS WTF

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @thenry3991
    @thenry3991 3 місяці тому +6

    There are already a staggering amount of seniors living in the streets, so much for those golden years. Property taxes continue to increase yearly, especially in New England. How are people on a fixed income suppose to keep up with that?

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +3

    For the most part, many of us have to sell our houses and property when we retire. We have to downsize. Option? Work into your 70's?

  • @BenGalaz-go5gc
    @BenGalaz-go5gc 3 місяці тому +7

    AmenBernie.you.are.a.good.men.🌹🙏👍🕊🙏

  • @Boomers4Zoomers
    @Boomers4Zoomers 3 місяці тому +1

    Godspeed, good sir 🙏

  • @factsoverfiction7826
    @factsoverfiction7826 3 місяці тому +8

    Everyone working needs to regularly request a raise. Grocery prices rose 28% since 2020. Has youf paycheck? If you're not a union member, learn to negotiate on your own behalf. People only respect you if you respect yourself.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.
      “…in your own behalf “
      Not so judgmental, my friend.
      My son is stuck where we refused to shop for years, promising to never actually spend there.
      Things got worse.
      Many of the big store's shutdown’s were based on greed.
      I compromised.
      There sre some union owned (bad choice of words?) stores in Tacoma and Seattle, but the cost of the ferry will eat you alive!!!
      So it’s a shared cost, and it’s even better when it includes medical (that didn’t come out right…) or anything that can qualify for a free pass.
      Keeps the workers working. Keeps me out, so I don’t just jump off the dwck.
      And I can shoo the various co-ops and family - granted, chain - owned stores.
      They are quasi private.
      They are small.
      They are a little nicer and a whole lot more desperate.
      Your theory was put to rest years ago.
      What is it you said you do?
      Oh, my son?
      They are back to treating people like 💩 and hope that they’ll get frustrated and leave.
      New workers, lowest wages.
      Longer time, efficient, know what they’re doing?
      The money doesn’t roll over.
      Don’t speak out of turn.
      It can blow up in your face. 😉

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +1

    I saw a coworker at at&t lose $32k in a day. This was close to retiring.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.
      My (onetime) father-in-law was one. Half of his his retirement.
      Same routine.
      It has to be rendered illegal.

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +1

    Souds like guaranteed contribution moves closer to an investment company's winfall. A guaranteed income for an investment company.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @1mightymouse
    @1mightymouse 3 місяці тому +2

    The last group I would believe is the heritage foundation.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Aren’t theall but owned by KOCK, et al? The whole highly elevated insanely wealthy wallowing in piles of money oozing💩?
      Bad manners shame on me. 😄.

  • @patvickers8189
    @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +1

    Overtime was a penalty. Thus upon overtime Social Security and Retirement on the company should be time and a half as well. Detriment on the worker should be reimbursed.
    BYW Mr Stevenson has a very nice suit. Sorry, just saying.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.
      I’m with you’til you toss out those two irritating words:
      “Just Sayin’”.
      Aaaarrergh! It just sort of defeats the purpose if the comment?

  • @DarwinskiYT
    @DarwinskiYT 3 місяці тому +4

    I am apparently subscribed to Bernie Sanders…

    • @patvickers8189
      @patvickers8189 3 місяці тому +2

      Then you'll hear the single politician who has not changed his fight for the common American since 1968.

    • @preshisify
      @preshisify 3 місяці тому

      😷 ☕ 🇺🇸

  • @isabelvaldivieso702
    @isabelvaldivieso702 3 місяці тому +5

    Por favor, activad los subtítulos automáticos en español. Muchas gracias.

  • @Inpreesme
    @Inpreesme 3 місяці тому +4

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @AlsanPine
    @AlsanPine 3 місяці тому +1

    social banking, social healthcare, social education for all. to say privatizing saves money is the most stupid thing that persists. explain to me how the billions in profits do not increase prices for services and goods. it is the government's very purpose to safeguard its citizens. it is very clear that when the few have too much money, most will have to go without. money is a finite resource. inflation is caused by overabundance of money. it is not the majority who have that money, it is the very few on top. this is why it was not a little covid money that went out to people that caused our inflation but the over decade of economic easing and decades of tax breaks for the richest in our society. this is why the problem started when we lowered the top taxes decade after decade. am i going crazy? no one seems to talk about this!

  • @user-ww3fq6on3i
    @user-ww3fq6on3i 3 місяці тому

    I've been homeless for 10 years as a result of having Sensory Processing Disorder and Mutism. No one would house me when I had income and I lost my income as a result. I have no chance of getting my mail because I can't get a VT ID when they do online only and no exceptions. There are no Accomidations for ADA being used and honored by any of the Human Services. What is best for the "Common Wealth"? At this point I think them Learning Generousity would be a start.

  • @shellb1633
    @shellb1633 3 місяці тому +1

    Or they hold more than one job, that pays low at one time

  • @Kim-ej2xm
    @Kim-ej2xm 3 місяці тому

    Inequality has increased in the USA

  • @chalmerscharitycrouse7834
    @chalmerscharitycrouse7834 3 місяці тому

    Houndstooth at 1:02:05.

  • @shellb1633
    @shellb1633 3 місяці тому +1

    'Wish you you were my President -

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Let’s tell him!!
      He’s been flooded with messages, senate office and Vermont senate office!!
      “You sound tired…?”
      “Mmmm…hmmm”.
      “What can I do for you?”
      She took it and asked if I needed a response.
      “No thank you, but I have to let you know that everyone appreciates your taking calls from out of state”.
      I feel lame because I tried back and obviously got no answer 😄!
      I left a message asking for borh or whichever flyers - 2016/2020 - they could send me a couple of.
      You should see me scratching my head and looking hopeless at the copy-shop. It costs a bloody fortune to have them do it, but so do full reams of the better copy paper!!!

  • @DowntownsUptown
    @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

    The ine below is Pete Seger. A whole lot younger!

  • @publicdomain1103
    @publicdomain1103 3 місяці тому +10

    My pension plan is in critical condition and is counting on the Pension insurance commission to fix it. Socialism is the answer and capitalism is the problem. Solidarity to withstand the implosion of a broken rigged system.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      Hey There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @AlsanPine
    @AlsanPine 3 місяці тому +1

    before this succeeds, we have to make the loophole rich people have to get away from having any income! we have to pay property tax for our real-estate but the rich do not have to pay for owning billions in stocks. that is a property and it is very real. as long as rich people can "borrow" money to live on while holding billions in stocks and company ownership, your plan will not actually work. and by the way there should be no cap on the tax either. moving the cap from $100k to $200k just makes a bad idea a little less bad. the billionaires still are getting away with not paying their fair share.

    • @DowntownsUptown
      @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

      There!
      I’ve got some songs and some stuff up top: list an electronic debate. This little machine is lucky it can only talk to me if i ask it to!!
      Is it bad manners to do some adaptations of one message in order to make a handful without going blind?
      I surely do hooe so!
      We need to rhem iut with and in Bernie’s Debates All Across The Internet and in emails - oh yeah.

  • @DowntownsUptown
    @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

    I wan my printer back up and running!

  • @MrBuzben
    @MrBuzben 3 місяці тому

    Crooks and criminals telling us what we already know.

  • @g23reece82
    @g23reece82 3 місяці тому

    The senate would not give up their benefits
    But the tax payers do? So why?

  • @ericfrantzen2516
    @ericfrantzen2516 3 місяці тому

    So, a guy who never had a real Job doesn't think other people should retire?

  • @kathleenroberts6931
    @kathleenroberts6931 3 місяці тому +3

    Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill, Jonestown refuses to put it on House floor...

  • @evanprince3564
    @evanprince3564 3 місяці тому

    I don't understand how these talks keep happening and shit just keeps getting worse

  • @jennifercuddy5663
    @jennifercuddy5663 3 місяці тому

    This is another reason why people are against the genocide. People are already scared to death and now they are scared to death of also the democrats. Faith in humanity is dropping and with it hope for the future.

  • @DowntownsUptown
    @DowntownsUptown 3 місяці тому

    😄🙄😄

  • @Boomers4Zoomers
    @Boomers4Zoomers 3 місяці тому

    Republicans😢

  • @donnagraham8844
    @donnagraham8844 3 місяці тому +1

    Why the lies? That's what I don't understand..the biggest mistake in history was choosing Hillary and joe over Bernie. We as the poor would be a helluva better and everyone if we had Bernie. Aww but we know why he's not President 👀

  • @johnnolang3734
    @johnnolang3734 3 місяці тому

    BERNIE FOR PRESIDENT.

  • @rockit3times
    @rockit3times 3 місяці тому

    Sounds like Obama
    401k for all
    Another promise unmet
    Siyyyy

  • @steveladner4346
    @steveladner4346 3 місяці тому

    The only things government needs to do is secure borders and protect my rights.

    • @maryshank7825
      @maryshank7825 3 місяці тому +2

      Because only you matter?🤦‍♀

    • @factsoverfiction7826
      @factsoverfiction7826 3 місяці тому +1

      How much of your taxes does that cost?

    • @steveladner4346
      @steveladner4346 3 місяці тому

      @@maryshank7825 This country was not founded to take care of people. I don't want to live in socialism.

    • @timothyhoffman3470
      @timothyhoffman3470 3 місяці тому

      There is way more to it than that~ Bro~ LIKE YOUR FUTURE~ The Boarder And Rights have nothing to do with it~! The one or two reasons People vote, shortsighted thinking should not be able to vote~ If you can't see in a big picture world you can't see to have anything to offer~ But mindless opinions! Our rights should not have anything to do with the Gov.
      The Supreme Court, should never be part of creating LAWS! That should never ever be their job! No Judge should pick candidates to be elected!~
      Silver Spooners, Actors, Monopolies should never be aloud in the Gov. Anywhere~!!!! Ignorance & lies should never have control~ No👹Corps☠👻run country!

    • @truthseeker2648
      @truthseeker2648 3 місяці тому

      Do you mean that the rights that the Republicans are trying to strip away?, those rights? Republicans are the new fascist party they do not want US to have freedom, justice, or the American way. They showed who they were, they’re insurrectionists! They’re traitors to our US constitution. Help support protections to our people!

  • @davidcald5975
    @davidcald5975 3 місяці тому

    BIBEN over due retirement 😂😂😂😂