Ask a Libertarian 2012 with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch: What happens to those too young to count on social security and too old to start saving?

Reason Staff | 6.12.2012 2:33 PM

Welcome to Ask a Libertarian 2012 with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. They are the authors of the book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, coming out in paperback with a new foreword covering Occupy Wall Street and more, on June 26.

In this video, they answer the question:

"What happens to us 'tweeners' who are too young to count on social security and too old to start saving?" - sent by Matt Connery

Produced by Meredith Bragg, Jim Epstein, Josh Swain, and Tracy Oppenheimer with help from Katie Hooks.

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Joe M 13 years ago

You should've been saving earlier! I started my Roth IRA at age 25.
PaganPriestess 13 years ago

Hope you haven't pissed off your kids too much. If you didn't have kids...fuck you, don't be stealing from mine.
R C Dean 13 years ago

You work until you die, that's what.
1. Joe M 13 years ago
  
  But retirement is part of the social contract!
2. tarran 13 years ago
  
  Or save more(!)
  
  It's amazing how far you can stretch your money if you economize.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

The Wolf: You guys look like... What do they look like, Jimmie?

Jimmie: Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks.

Jules: Ha-ha-ha. They're your clothes, motherfucker.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Why is "Thunderdome" not an option here? Ask A Libertarian sucks!
Zombie Jimbo 13 years ago

Soylent Green is Baby Boomers!
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  No wonder it has no taste.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  No wonder it has no taste.
GILMORE 13 years ago

What happens to those too young to count on social security and too old to start saving?

Libertarian: "Who cares?"
SIV 13 years ago

DOG FOOD STAMPS
1. GILMORE 13 years ago
  
  DOGS ARE PRODUCTIVE CONTRIBUTORS TO SOCIETY = I SAY, SLAVES IN OUR DIAMOND MINES
Mr. FIFY 13 years ago

Obviously, we need to do away with private retirement methods, and put everyone on a monthly retirement dole check.

/Tony
AlmightyJB 13 years ago

Start your own reality show. You could call it "Watch me live in a box and eat out of Dumpsters". Should be worth some coin.
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  There's also this. $25 an hour, no experience necessary.
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012.....necessary/

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