Posted on 03/16/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
The toxic dollar is bringing hell in a handbasket.
Along with the student loan debt bubble and other major financial factors, the looming pensions crisis is bound to be the death of us all.
Because its based on a future promise to pay, it has long been a benefit dangled to solve strikes and union disputes because, in the end, it is just more debt, whether private or public.
With tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities, the weight of an avalanche remains dangling over our heads. An aging population is cashing in on needed retirement benefits while the younger generations must support multiples that are unsustainable financially.
Somewhere between the retiree that needs clothing, food and lodging, and the bankruptcy of cities and state governments is the makings of the next economic crisis.
via AgainstCronyCapitalism.org:
This is one of those things that few will pay attention to until its a 5 alarm fire. Then the policymakers will run around with their hands in the air saying they didnt see it coming.
Of course they did. But addressing the problem is hard and will make people unhappy in the short term.
This blog pointed out the sad, and quiet fact that entities like the government of South Carolina are deep in debt over pensions. Everywhere there are failing social systems.
And somewhere, the rubber is going to met the road, and people are going to get hurt.
As SHTF previously reported:
In 2014 a new Federal law made it possible for pension funds to cut benefits for their recipients.
[I]n October of [2015] the canary in the coal mine fell over and died when Illinois announced that the State was posting pension payments because it ran out of money.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
I check in on Zero Hedge daily. Yes there is a lot of doom and gloom, but there is good info in there.
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