SHE'S COMING AFTER YOUR MONEY

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:10:50 -0400

ZOMBIES AND POLITICS

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:09:37 -0400

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:09:43 -0400

Retirement Fund Trillions Lure Government Grabbers

Is the government making plans to confiscate your retirement money? The Obama administration is certainly exploring the idea.

This question no longer seems far-fetched when the group-thinkers in Washington unabashedly promote a doctrine of wealth redistribution and central planning. These Keynesian socialists know they will need vast new sources of revenues to fund their relentless spending binges to "transform" this nation. A logical next step would be to legitimize the confiscation of private retirement assets; an idea that was contemplated in the recent past by the Clinton administration.

According to the Investment Company Institute, there was $7.835 trillion in IRA, 401K, 457, and 403b accounts in 2009. That is certainly too large a sum to be ignored by the big spending social engineers in Washington. Bureaucrats and politicians have been hard at work formulating a social justice excuse to legislate an historic seizure of private assets. This would not be the first time the statists extorted wealth from US citizens on a massive scale.

The public shakedown always employs a two step tactic to repeatedly dupe the malleable electorate. First, the statists fabricate and incessantly excoriate a contrived crisis of social injustice that is victimizing helpless and unknowing Americans. Next, they "craft"; a term Pelosi uses again and again, insidious legislation disguised as a necessary and compassionate solution that makes participation and universal funding compulsory by force of the law.

It is a simple and effective strategy that continues to trip up even the staunchest conservatives who ultimately succumb to the throng of propagandized constituents demanding protection from the newly revealed threat.

Patrick Heller warns:

"Expect to see terms such as "retirement income protection" thrown around. It is highly likely that such a program would be implemented in steps to help overcome public opposition. The US government plan is to eventually take ownership of all assets in IRAs and 401K accounts and replace them with US government "Treasury Retirement Bonds." In the October 2008 hearings, it was proposed that these bonds pay a 3% interest rate. Another major change is that, upon retirement, the individual's retirement account would be converted into an annuity. Once the individual is deceased, the individual's heirs would not inherit anything."

Has personal responsibility and self-reliance been transformed into a perceived disadvantage? Our benevolent government seems to think so.

The rest of the story.........

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/retirement_fund_trillions_lure.html

Liberal Media Hypocrisy Test

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:09:28 -0400

Gov Christie Educates the Educators

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:09:52 -0400