Its real and typical lifestyle inflation - if you spend $600k a year and "only" make $650k you won't feel that secure because there is no wiggle room - we all know that is not the case and that mentality is completely opposite of this forum but that is how most people are.
Yahoo in general has been such a joke with some of their stuff though:
Here is one (although technically from morningstar) that is crazy too.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/soon-retire-couple-balances-travel-110000745.htmlThe best ones are from the Yahoo Contributor Network - typically a bunch of complainypants BS.