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For the total idiots who think dems and repubs are alike,
Posted on: November 9, 2017 at 19:01:47 CT
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there is no way in hell this insane bill would come from a republican. You goddam useless ****ing demlibs. I'm so sick of you a**holes.
America’s silent crisis grows audible…
Pensions & Investments magazine — yes, a publication exists bearing that title — reports that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will soon introduce legislation allowing failing pension funds to borrow from the U.S. Treasury.
The plan would let funds borrow taxpayer money on extremely easy terms to meet their requirements.
Funds collected from taxpaying Americans will be spent to satisfy the ridiculous retirement promises and obligations made over the past few decades, and while the immediate recipients of the funds, i.e., those looking at near-term retirement, will be made whole, everyone else, i.e., taxpayers, will lose.
Just so.
The bill would also hatch a new bureaucracy within the Treasury Department called the Pension Rehabilitation Administration.
America would therefore be condemned to a pension crisis for the remainder of its days — the nature of bureaucracy is not to solve but to expand any problem it was created to solve.
That is how it justifies its existence… and keeps itself in funds.
At all events, the agency would have its work cut out...
Marke****ch columnist Jeff Reeves has warned that “collapsing pensions will fuel America’s next financial crisis.”
“This is not a distant concern,” he adds, “but a system already in crisis.”
By some estimates, America’s public pensions alone are sunk in a $6 trillion abyss.
According to data supplied by the Federal Reserve, pensions — public and private combined — were roughly 27% underfunded at the end of last year.
The dilemma, approached from any direction, is a labyrinth.
How has the American pension come to such a troubled estate?
Most public pension systems were built upon the rosy-dawn assumption that their investments would yield a handsome 7.5% annual return.
And once upon a time, that may have been realistic.
But that was before the 2008 financial crisis… before the Federal Reserve opened its war on savers... and bonds still paid a handsome yield.
Consider…
The average public pension plan worked an average gain of 2–4% by 2015.
It returned just 0.6% last year, according to Bloomberg.
The Center for Retirement Research says that even if these plans attain their Pollyannaish 7.5% returns over the next few years, they’ll still only be 73% funded by 2021.
Meanwhile, a great number of pensioners are entering or approaching retirement.
A highly technical term describes the foregoing... and we apologize if it sends you off to the dictionary:
Insolvency.
America’s silent crisis grows audible…
Pensions & Investments magazine — yes, a publication exists bearing that title — reports that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will soon introduce legislation allowing failing pension funds to borrow from the U.S. Treasury.
The plan would let funds borrow taxpayer money on extremely easy terms to meet their requirements.
Funds collected from taxpaying Americans will be spent to satisfy the ridiculous retirement promises and obligations made over the past few decades, and while the immediate recipients of the funds, i.e., those looking at near-term retirement, will be made whole, everyone else, i.e., taxpayers, will lose.
Just so.
The bill would also hatch a new bureaucracy within the Treasury Department called the Pension Rehabilitation Administration.
America would therefore be condemned to a pension crisis for the remainder of its days — the nature of bureaucracy is not to solve but to expand any problem it was created to solve.
That is how it justifies its existence… and keeps itself in funds.
At all events, the agency would have its work cut out...
Marke****ch columnist Jeff Reeves has warned that “collapsing pensions will fuel America’s next financial crisis.”
“This is not a distant concern,” he adds, “but a system already in crisis.”
By some estimates, America’s public pensions alone are sunk in a $6 trillion abyss.
According to data supplied by the Federal Reserve, pensions — public and private combined — were roughly 27% underfunded at the end of last year.
The dilemma, approached from any direction, is a labyrinth.
How has the American pension come to such a troubled estate?
Most public pension systems were built upon the rosy-dawn assumption that their investments would yield a handsome 7.5% annual return.
And once upon a time, that may have been realistic.
But that was before the 2008 financial crisis… before the Federal Reserve opened its war on savers... and bonds still paid a handsome yield.
Consider…
The average public pension plan worked an average gain of 2–4% by 2015.
It returned just 0.6% last year, according to Bloomberg.
The Center for Retirement Research says that even if these plans attain their Pollyannaish 7.5% returns over the next few years, they’ll still only be 73% funded by 2021.
Meanwhile, a great number of pensioners are entering or approaching retirement.
A highly technical term describes the foregoing... and we apologize if it sends you off to the dictionary:
Insolvency.
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For the total idiots who think dems and repubs are alike, - GA Tiger MU - 11/9 19:01:47
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