But I wake up happy most mornings, my kids are great, and my golf game gets better every year.

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This is about where all these doctors, these nurses, these health care professionals wake up everyday, happy to go to work because they think they're going to be able to do their job or they're waiting for the other shoe to fall every single day because somebody's trying to strangle their ability to make these decisions.

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But if workers check the happy target date box and then mentally check out, they could wake up to find their retirements more Hitchcockian than Disney-esque.

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Nobody is going to come out of this happy in the end, and we can only hope that our elected officials wake up to the fact that an unpopular compromise is imperative before things go too much further.

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