Comments on: Financial Independence With a Motorhome — Is This Guy Insane? http://retiredpay.com/make-money/blogging/financial-independence-with-a-motorhome-is-this-guy-insane/ Seniors and Retirees Making Money Online Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RP http://retiredpay.com/make-money/blogging/financial-independence-with-a-motorhome-is-this-guy-insane/comment-page-1/#comment-5591 RP Tue, 13 May 2008 23:07:27 +0000 http://retiredpay.com/make-money/blogging/financial-independence-with-a-motorhome-is-this-guy-insane/#comment-5591 Hi Richard, Thanks for visiting and for your valuable comment. I guess the loss of the American Dream is one way to look at things, or, in another way we might say the dream is still very much alive and well. A majority of the readers in my target group have not gotten themselves in over their heads with over-leveraged home loans, expecting a house to be an investment, rather thna a home. Nothing prevents a financially secure retiee from taking to the road, either. My goal is just to get people to think outside the doomsday headlines and empower their remaining years. Also, nothing prevents a retiree who is _not_ financially 'fixed' from using the mnay new ways to earn from fixing whatever money ills s/he has and having a retirement they cna enjoy. I live overseas by choice. It gives me a little different perspective, When I tlak to fellow Americans still back in the rat race, every otgher word they utter seems to be in fear .. what about health insurance, what about this issue or that issue, what if Socuial secuity goes broke ... the list is endless. All are valid concerns, but not issues one should be so paralyzed with fear over that they stop living ... I personally think one of the US's greatest untapped resources are our seniors and retirees, but the generally accepted view is, once your 65 or so you are a burden who has to stay alive for the convenience of health insurance companies, fit only to write letters to Congressmen asking the governement to make one ill-advised intervention into the free economy after another. We are _so_ much more, if we allow ourselves to be. Hi Richard,
Thanks for visiting and for your valuable comment. I guess the loss of the American Dream is one way to look at things, or, in another way we might say the dream is still very much alive and well. A majority of the readers in my target group have not gotten themselves in over their heads with over-leveraged home loans, expecting a house to be an investment, rather thna a home. Nothing prevents a financially secure retiee from taking to the road, either. My goal is just to get people to think outside the doomsday headlines and empower their remaining years. Also, nothing prevents a retiree who is _not_ financially ‘fixed’ from using the mnay new ways to earn from fixing whatever money ills s/he has and having a retirement they cna enjoy.

I live overseas by choice. It gives me a little different perspective, When I tlak to fellow Americans still back in the rat race, every otgher word they utter seems to be in fear .. what about health insurance, what about this issue or that issue, what if Socuial secuity goes broke … the list is endless.

All are valid concerns, but not issues one should be so paralyzed with fear over that they stop living … I personally think one of the US’s greatest untapped resources are our seniors and retirees, but the generally accepted view is, once your 65 or so you are a burden who has to stay alive for the convenience of health insurance companies, fit only to write letters to Congressmen asking the governement to make one ill-advised intervention into the free economy after another. We are _so_ much more, if we allow ourselves to be.

]]> By: Richard http://retiredpay.com/make-money/blogging/financial-independence-with-a-motorhome-is-this-guy-insane/comment-page-1/#comment-5585 Richard Mon, 12 May 2008 16:45:17 +0000 http://retiredpay.com/make-money/blogging/financial-independence-with-a-motorhome-is-this-guy-insane/#comment-5585 Makes alot of sense. But sad to think that this is what the American dream has reduced us to- or has it? I am reminded of Rockford's trailer on the beach in California- he seemed to live quite the exciting life as a private detective. I used to love watching the scenes on his weekly television show where they showed his trailer parked within running distance to the Pacific Ocean- a rare if not illegal occurrence on the east coast. But all the same he lived well AND enjoyed a life style most of us only dream of. Makes alot of sense. But sad to think that this is what the American dream has reduced us to- or has it? I am reminded of Rockford’s trailer on the beach in California- he seemed to live quite the exciting life as a private detective. I used to love watching the scenes on his weekly television show where they showed his trailer parked within running distance to the Pacific Ocean- a rare if not illegal occurrence on the east coast. But all the same he lived well AND enjoyed a life style most of us only dream of.

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