Posted on 09/07/2012 11:06:25 AM PDT by Pietro
I beleive that if Obama wins this election he will move to nationalize our 401Ks and every other pension plan in the country. Why?
Consider:
Even after raising taxes on the "rich" he'll be no nearer to reducing the deficit; and then Obamacare kicks in.
His big idea boys will look around and notice the trillions locked up in pensions and 401Ks. They'll figure its all the government's money anyway and so they'll grab it.
They won't be able to go through the legislature so they'll need to use one of the Cabinet dept's to make the grab, and they'll have to do it quick, before you can react.
The election will show them the % of moochers vs % of producers and so they'll be comfortable thinking a majority supports the theft.
“the same way FDR took our gold”
It irks me that no one remembers this. The had g-men watch you in the safe deposit room, for Midas’ sake. Back during the fake debt ceiling “crisis” Obama blahed about the US defaulting on its debts for the first time ever. Which of course wasn’t going to happen, unless they deliberately chose to pay out unions or something instead of creditors. You know, the same way municipalities in a crunch skimp on fire and police instead of firing the brothers and cousins sitting on their asses collecting a salary.
Point is we absolutely did default. The US government in 33 had contracts obligating them to remit in gold. FDR said go suck an egg. SCOTUS backed him up. Those people were never paid. Washington is a deadbeat.
And what’s Romney going to do, nationalize bad mortgages?
This is from Romney’s issues section of his website:
“Foreclosures are a difficult, long, and expensive process for homeowners and lenders alike. Mitt Romney will facilitate creative alternatives to foreclosure for those who cannot afford to pay their mortgage. These alternatives will minimize the instability of communities hard hit by the housing crisis, preserve the credit of homeowners, and can help keep families in their homes.”
I’ll vote for Mitt, but he’s bad news too.
Maybe Robert’s needs to be impeached.
Don’t kid yourself. Mitt will do the same thing. Pensions, retirement accounts, IRAs are the largest pile of untapped money.
Why wait to see?
Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you.
The US will join many other nations eventually in either folding retirement accounts into SS or requiring them to be almost entirely gov’t bonds.
Now is the time. Move.
The Executive Order issued by FDR confiscating all privately and corporate held gold coins, bullion, and certificates in 1933.
He gave people 3 days to hand in their gold.
“Hard to define an amount of money as being worth something other then that amount of money”
Ah, but your using the old standard definition of “just compensation” as equivalent to the market value of whatever’s been confiscated. But we have this new—or not do new but newer than regular old justice—concept of “social justice.” It’s like justice, but only benefits politically favored groups. Since we have a living Constitution “just compensation” now reads “socially just compensation.” And the floodgates are open.
“unless a later court repudiates it”
I have been hoping after someone actually pays it the penaltax/taxelty will be struck down as an illegal head tax. But I doubt it. Also, I had been lamenting Roberts’ infamy as the end of our Republic, but must admit that he was anticipated by previous cases, including Helvering and Steward Machine Company. If not during the Civil War, our system failed in 1937. The Annis horrilibus.
We'd need 2/3 votes in the Senate for impeachment. Something to work for in the future, but as of now, not possible.
Barack Obama is not a "normal" politician. Don't be confused.
I can't understand why anyone complied.
I'll wait for the election. If the majority of our fellow citizens are moochers then I'll be w/ you before November is over.
I had a great one, but one day I was sailing and my boat overturned...
Paid the tax, turned it into something a little more solid. Nothing left to nationalize.
Do it while there's still time.
BTW, all the gold bugs out there are very poor historians indeed.
As I remember they had some hearings on this after Obama took office. At the time they didn’t really go anywhere but as things have gotten worse is it really a stretch to think this cannot happen? They would “encourage” you to buy Government bonds paying 2% and that would make up your 401 K while they spend the rest.
As I said Argentina did this so you don’t think it can’t happen here????
Yes and once that money is spent by the Government then what, no more wealth to tap into.
The government could seize all private wealth and it woould be gone and spent in less than two years, then what????
@$5 Trillion in pension plans in the US.
It’s not likely to be stricken down after the tax is paid. Didn’t they go through the whole phony discussion as to whether the court could even rule on a tax that hadn’t been paid? And Roberts said they could? So, even if the law is not repealed in 2013, and someone has to pay the tax, the court is not going to change its mind 2 years later. Unless Roberts or another liberal is replaced. It all comes back to winning in November, but if we win, then we should be repealing anyway and it becomes moot.
Really? When there are no records of the purchase and you've managed to keep your mouth shut, what are they going to do? Search everyone's house with metal detectors? Ha!
BTW, all the gold bugs out there are very poor historians indeed.
Sure pal. That's why 'someone' I know very well was able to purchase a rental house with your 'very poor historian insight.'
The 'crazy' 'gold bug' was able to profit enough from the $430/oz he bought-in at in 2005 to cashing it in at over triple the paper money price.
What a dumbass I, er 'he' was.
Of course, the $1700/oz price point we see right now just reflects how far the Federal Reserve Note has dropped in perceived value, not any actual change in the value of gold.
The only value gold has is to lock in your buying power the day you exchange FRNs for it. Since the printing presses run non-stop, each individual slip of paper is worth less today than it was yesterday.
Fortunately for historically-challenged gold bugs, our fellow citizens can't grasp this simple equation.
So, when a stupid 'gold bug' cashes in gold at the current FRN price, he can pay off old debt incurred at the previous FRN value with ease.
Buy physical gold with no records if you don't mind being called 'crazy' by the people on the sideline!
But that can only happen in a free market environment. Under the nightmare I'm concerned w/ the free exchange of gold will be outlawed.
That will reduce the value of gold, documented or otherwise, to a bartered commodity. Its value will be greatly reduced, even when exchanged for gov. script.
The reason I started this thread, and I thank all participants, is my deep concern that Obama can be re-elected, and if he is the likely outcome could be disasterous for all.
We all need to make sure that doesn't happen.
GO BACK FEW YEARS TO CONG.RICHARD GEPHARDT’S “UNIVERSAL PENSION PLAN”.HE WANTED ALL PRIVATE PENSION PLANS,401KS,AND ROTH IRAS.IF I REMEMBER,THE DEMS TRIED TO BRING IT UP WHEN THEY TOOK CONTROLL.
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