Still signing on the dotted line!
Republican Michael Cardwell, a land-use planner in Washington state, did the math. He would retire with $11,000 in his account, plus maybe $900 more in investment gains if all went well on the stock market.
"Wow," Cardwell, 50, said with a laugh. "I may get one additional paycheck, thank you very much." Nonetheless, he said he will support the president.
To borrow a term from Atrios, this guy’s my wanker of the day.
But he’s closely followed by Marilyn Donnelly.
Donnelly, a 46-year-old nurse on Florida's central Atlantic coast, said that with luck a personal account could grow substantially, and she relishes the opportunity to give it a try. (Emphasis added.)
These are the type of hanging-on-to the-middle-class by their fingernails folks, or dreaming bigger dreams folks, who never understand the laws of statistics, who think the slot machine on a dry run is “due” to win, who think that all lottery events are one big event so they’re eventually “due” to win, and so forth.
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