Did Obama have any plan for 401k or retirement funds before the election?
In the movie Charleston Heston is a cop in the future, his best friend is retiring and accepts a peaceful assisted suicide with full surround sound and orchestrated music graciously supplied to the public so that instead of sitting in retirement homes drawing a pension the elderly can die with honor, however the world has a severe food shortage and so to shorten the story here CH follows his friends body to a processing plant that grinds the bodies up into something like a PowerBar,
See the movie.
Yes, I heard many of these ideas before the election. Pretty much everyone above you is guilty of posting without reading and understanding what the article was saying. They are actually pretty good ideas (which is why either they're not Obama's or they'll never get into law).
The only two that are genuinely bad are allowing people to dip into their 401k's for emergency funds for 2009, and having the government match employee contributions. The first one is a REALLY bad idea (and identified as such in the article) - it will take a lot of capital from an ailing market and the funds will never be paid back to the 401k's. The other one socializes our retirement.
The article never says word one about them confiscating our 401k's, which is what the Dems in Congress want to do.