BUMPED: Not only did the GOPe/Democrat budget bill fund every one of Barack Obama's lawless actions, it also supported the Department of Labor's illegal, Soviet-style takeover of the retirement industry. The 401(k) takeover scheme is opposed by majorities of representatives on both sides of the aisle; and the failure of Paul Ryan to even defund this lawless land-grab speaks volumes about the sellout of America by the Uniparty. Cruz-Trump 2016.
In 2013, in a little-heralded case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the Obama Labor Department's attempt to punish voluntary retirement plan service providers. The DOL, under the direction of the controversial, radical leftist Tom Perez, had tried to force providers of 401(k), 403(b), IRA, and related services to adopt a massive new set of regulations known as "fiduciary" responsibilities.The Seventh Circuit slammed the door shut on Labor and the Supreme Court thereafter declined to hear the appeal, which meant that the Obama administration had lost in the highest court in the land.
Of course for the "most transparent administration ever", that step simply meant that the court's opinion was to be rejected and that Obama would use his infamous pen to rule by executive fiat. After all, the ends justify the means, correct?
On August 24th, Perez and the Labor Department confirmed they are moving forward with new regulations that would repudiate the court's opinion. Even Obama's SEC Commissioner issued an ominous warning that the Labor Department's new regulations would unleash havoc and create "a mess."
Furthermore, financial services experts have cautioned that the new rule is "too complicated to [actually] put into practice."
Earlier this month, the Labor Department held public hearings to discuss the input and concerns they have received from industry groups and other stakeholders that will be impacted by the department's proposal to expand the definition of “fiduciary” under ERISA … In the debate over the DOL's proposal — which, as written, [will] create a vast and costly new regulatory regime for independent firms and advisers across the country…Barack Obama and Tom Perez don't care about all of that. They're on a mission to seize your retirement funds:
Labor Department officials are determined to produce a new standard of fiduciary duty for anyone giving retirement investment advice, once they process concerns raised in thousands of comment letters and four days of hearings on their proposal.
A SIMPLE PLAN
Their intent, in my view, is to force a consolidation of the retirement service industry, just as Obamacare drove mergers and acquisitions in the health care business, leaving only gigantic corporations in its wake. These companies have become intertwined and dependent upon legislators and lobbyists in Washington. They can't make a move without the permission of the federal leviathan.
Many Democrats are open about the true goal of Obamacare: to end up with a single-payer health care system, modeled after the National Health Service in the U.K. You know, the system that was reported to have killed 120,000 seniors in 2012 alone.
SETTING THEIR SIGHTS ON TRILLIONS OF YOUR RETIREMENT DOLLARS
The Obama administration has its sights set on an incredible amount of your money. By some estimates, Americans are holding well over $10 trillion in private retirement accounts.For a country with debt that is clearly "unsustainable" (source: the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office), flashing that kind of figure to a Democrat politician is akin to showing a kilo of heroin to a desperate junkie.
THE GOAL: FINANCIAL REPRESSION
One of the first steps the Obama administration took to signal its direction was to unveil its wildly unsuccessful "MyRA" program. This takes participants' funds and invests them in "ultra-safe", government-issued debt.You can be sure that the future of the retirement services business will be to extend "fiduciary" responsibilities to require advisors to leverage federal debt instruments in their clients' portfolios.
This is called "financial repression", and it is the hallmark of a government on its way to bankruptcy. Essentially, a failing government forces investors to purchase its debt because it knows damn well that the instruments will ultimately never be repaid.
Argentina and other failed countries have embarked upon this strategy prior to a full-blown currency collapse.
You can be sure that the real goal of the Obama administration is to nationalize your retirement account and to invest it in debt that will become increasingly unsellable in the open market.
If you want to maintain control of your retirement funds, I'd recommend contacting your member of Congress today. Urge them to defund the Department of Labor until this rule is nuked from orbit.
Related, must-read: Don't cry for me, America.
I'd suspect what they're really doing is defaulting on their liabilities. By confiscating people's retirement funds; it means that they don't have to pay out on them, because they cannot.
ReplyDeleteWith SS funds gone, pensions upside down, all bonds needing to be rolled over, etc...'using' 401k funds are the obvious next step to keep the can kicking for another 5-10 years. Barry soetoro is just a puppet, voting won't change things, don't get caught up in the left/right paradigm. best course of action is to just not participate in 401k. Stop adding to it, and consider taking some if not all funds out of it.
ReplyDeleteSS funds aren't gone ... tens of milllions of recipients are still receiving monthly subsidies ... besides, retirees on SS EARNED every single penny of their payouts ... the gov't owns NONE.
DeleteAny dipping into these funds is FELONY GRAND THEFT ... since billions ... if not trillions ... is involved. Robbing poverty-stricken retirees of their SS benefits is also premeditated MURDER, whenever even one such retiree dies, because he/she's unable to afford sufficient food, medicines, and heat for their residences in winter.
Eileen you are misinformed. No one has "earned" their SS accounts and the government doesn't owe you nor I SS money. There is no "right" to social security.
ReplyDeleteMany people believe that Social Security is an “earned right.” That is, they think that because they have paid Social Security taxes, they are entitled to receive Social Security benefits. The government encourages that belief by referring to Social Security taxes as “contributions,” as in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act. However, in the 1960 case of Fleming v. Nestor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workers have no legally binding contractual rights to their Social Security benefits, and that those benefits can be cut or even eliminated at any time.
Ephram Nestor was a Bulgarian immigrant who came to the United States in 1918 and paid Social Security taxes from 1936, the year the system began operating, until he retired in 1955. A year after he retired, Nestor was deported for having been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s. In 1954 Congress had passed a law saying that any person deported from the United States should lose his Social Security benefits. Accordingly, Nestor’s $55.60 per month Social Security checks were stopped. Nestor sued, claiming that because he had paid Social Security taxes, he had a right to Social Security benefits.
The Supreme Court disagreed, saying “To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of ‘accrued property rights’ would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever changing conditions which it demands.” The Court went on to say, “It is apparent that the non-contractual interest of an employee covered by the [Social Security] Act cannot be soundly analogized to that of the holder of an annuity, whose right to benefits is bottomed on his contractual premium payments.”
In an earlier case, Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.”
In other words, Social Security is not an insurance program at all. It is simply a payroll tax on one side and a welfare program on the other. Your Social Security benefits are always subject to the whim of 535 politicians in Washington.
This is basically the same thing they did to independent medical practice, and why you are now seeing a nurse practitioner owned by a gigantic system run by the same university that steals your income via state taxes so they can ruin your kids lives by charging them a ton, putting them in debt, making them unemployable, and subsidizing foreigners and Democrats.
ReplyDeleteThe Government has shown a total lack of self control with money so it is to be expected that they would prey on retirement accounts. Face it, there are only 75 million Boomers in play here and 40 to 50 million will croak quickly without meds. The rest can be humiliated and starved off by 2030, leaving the Country to the clamor of the ignorant, the unemployed and their Progressive Masters.
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