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mediocre at best.
In spite of several market crashes, I have saved money for retirement my whole life.
I've put away less than, the cost of SS in 401ks. Nonetheless, those 401k will provide 3x the income in retirement than SS will.
I have also saved in taxable funds, without which, 4x ss would be a pretty modest retirement.
2 the feds have spent 22 trllion on the war on poverty, about 3 trillion actually went to the poor, and it has been a complete failure.