Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog [9],
President Obama released his 2015 budget proposal this week… and as expected, it contained even more language about his MyRA initiative.
As we’ve discussed so many times in the past, IRAs are an irresistible kitty for such a bankrupt government.
The US government itself estimates that over $5 trillion is tucked away in American retirement accounts.
They need that money. Your money.
Think about it– the Chinese are starting to dump their US Treasuries in record numbers. The Social Security trust fund is also on track to start dumping Treasuries in order to pay out record numbers of retirees.
The US government is struggling to come up with new funding sources… and retirement accounts are by far the easiest target.
Why? Because the majority of retirement accounts at trapped at big Wall Street banks, which are all de facto agents of the government. All the Treasury Department has to do is make a phone call.
Of course, they’ll claim that it’s for your own good. I suspect they’ll wait until there’s a big stock market crash and then say “We must protect Americans from such risky investments. And that’s why today we are requiring these banks to invest a portion of the retirement accounts they manage in the safety and security of US government Treasuries.”
A few weeks ago in his Sad State of the Union address, President Obama announced this MyRA program– a new initiative that will “help” Americans invest directly in US Treasuries.
Then he looked everyone in the eye and said, “These accounts will never go down in value…”
Naturally. How could loaning money at rates which don’t even keep pace with inflation to a country that has racked up more debt than any other nation in the history of the world possibly pose a risk?
After announcing MyRA, Mr. Obama took to the streets, and his team took to the media… flooding newspapers and airwaves with MyRA propaganda.
Yesterday’s budget announcement constitutes the next phase: automatic enrollment.
And I suspect that, just like Obamacare, there will soon come a time when it will become MANDATORY to have some sort of retirement plan set up, naturally with the government option at people’s fingertips.
This isn’t some far-fetched conspiracy theory. In fact, it’s already happened in so many countries over the last few years– from Argentina to Ireland to Poland.
In fact, even the Treasury Department grabbed government pension funds at least three times since 2011 in order to plug temporary funding gaps.
The Federal Times, a publication for senior government managers, ran a story back in 2011 entitled “Treasury raids your pension – but don’t worry, Geithner says”.
This idea is no longer theory or conjecture. It’s happening, and the conclusions are all supported by the data.
Anyone who thinks ‘that will never happen here’ is really fooling themselves… and playing very dangerous games with their hard-earned savings.