MOST BOOMERS ARE UP SHIT’S CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE

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Posted on 27th February 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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The average retirement balance of all workers is $77,000. The median is much lower, as the highly paid employees have large balances. This is pitiful enough, but looking at the balances for 55 to 64 year olds is frightening. The chart below captures a future of cat food and Oodles of Noodles for millions of Boomers. No wonder they will never vote to reduce entitlements. There really is no excuse for this pitiful level of savings at their age. A 60 year old was born in 1953. They turned 27 years old in 1980 at the outset of a 20 year bull market. Anyone who contributed regularly to a 401k from 1980 until today should have hundreds of thousands accumulated. Instead you have 60% of all 55 to 64 year olds with less than $72,000 of retirement savings.

These people have a life expectancy of 20 years and many will only get $15,000 to $20,000 per year from Social Security, with increases that will be less than the true inflation rate. Meanwhile, their real estate taxes, food costs, energy costs, and health care costs go up by 5% per year or more. They can earn about $600 of interest per year on a $120,000 retirement account balance. They can’t expect more than 3% real annual stock market gains over the next ten years, with a couple of plunges mixed in for good measure.

I hope Boomers weren’t counting on the idyllic retirement they see on those Wall Street banker commercials. The only ones having an idyllic retirement are the bankers.

 

MY CAT SEEMS TO LIKE IT. MAYBE BOOMERS WILL LIKE IT TOO

 

The Green Swan v2.0

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Posted on 23rd November 2010 by Reverse Engineer in Economy

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As was to be expected, over the weekend the Irish Goobermint caved to the Illuminati and have at least in general terms agreed to ask for a Loan from the IMF/EMU, although the exact details of what they are going to “ask” for have yet to be spelled out in the MSM. The announcement here on Sunday night is meant to quell anxiety before the markets open for biz on Monday morning. At least in the early trading, this is functioning as expected. The Euro is trading up again, and for the moment Bond holders of Irish debt have had their fears of a Haircut relieved.

However, the most important party to this transaction, the Irish people who now have another $25K or so per capita tacked onto their personal indebtedness have yet to be heard from. At least one of our members here Hubris who currently lives in Ireland is of the opinion his Irish brethren are about as cowed as J6P here in Amerika, and will basically react to this by crowding the Pubs, chugging Guinness and complaining loudly to each other about their Goobermint stooges, but not much else will occur. According to him, the IRA is a Paper Tiger, and any bombings or assassinations that might evolve from this will be False Flags actually perpetrated by MI5, British Intelligence.

I personally find it hard to believe that the Irish won’t at least react with some Strikes and then depose the current Goobermint with a new one, since its popularity is sinking to all time lows. Of course similar to here in the FSofA, anybody new they drop in there will also end up caving to the Illuminati. The next week will be an interesting one to watch and see if there is any real reaction out of the Irish people or not for having been sold into Debt Slavery by their Goobermint.

Now, the Ink isn’t even dry yet on the supposed agreement reached here, but already the Bond Vigilantes have moved onto the next weak link in the PIIGS chain, Portugal. Bond spreads are widening there, and they have even less cash on hand than the Irish do, so in pretty short order here they will be getting a visit from the IMF/EMU Hit Squad of Bankster Cleaners. Then onto Spain, then onto Italy.

One can expect Helicopter Ben to open the Fed Money Spigot to Full On in order to facilitate this charade, although by the time this Parade makes it to Italy my expectation would be Angela Merkel will have had enough of Bailing out the Lazy Latins of the South with hard earned Teutonic Cash. Even if she doesn’t though, once the Bond Vigilantes finish with the last of the PIIGS, they will move into the Core and go after France and Germany itself. The Cascade cannot be stopped, it has to work its way back to the core. On a Global Level, with the Dollar as World Reserve Currency, the Last Stop on the train to the end of this Monetary system will be DA FED, of course.

As the train moves along through each of these Stops, its impossible to determine just how many Trillions Helicopter Ben will print to keep the European Toilet system flush with Liquidity. This above and beyond the QE2 ship he set sailing a week or two ago or so to keep the Homeland Money Toilet Flushing. Exactly what he will do when USTs are attacked is anyone’s guess, but I swear I still can’t see how it will get that far before the Daisy Chain gets broken.

Even after each of these Nations in turn gets its Bailout Loan from the IMF, even assuming Helicopter Ben has another trick up his sleeve to perpetuate the agony once the Bond Vigilantes hit on USTs, next year we go through the same process all over again as each Nation fails to meet its Tax revenue targets and needs another Loan to roll over last year’s loan. Welcome to the World of the Perpetual Bailout!

In the meantime, back on Main Street worldwide, Unemployment continues to grow, Goobermint services continue to be cut until finally what your Goobermint gets cut down to is just the CONgress or Parliament and the associated Military Police necessary to surround the buildings to keep them from being Torched. I don’t care how cowed J6P is, once the SNAP card system goes down J6P himself will SNAP. So sometime before that actually occurs, or when it occurs, then comes the official declaration of Martial Law, and bye bye any pretense at Due Process of Law or any other guarantee in the Constitution.

So back into prediction mode, I give this deal maybe a year to play out. Given my track record with this sort of prediction, you can take that with a few grains of salt, obviously. LOL. Hopefully, somewhere along the way in the next year some set of Politicians somewhere grow a pair and Just Say No to Drugs, aka Illuminati Debt Money. Once one country does it, also in Cascade mode every other country will also. Of course you still get more or less the same result of Martial Law, but at the same time it will get the restructuring going that much quicker and make it a good deal more difficult for the Illuminati to maintain control of the strings of power using Money and Debt. Thereafter, they will have to maintain control by Force, for as long as they can control and maintain the military.

I’ll conclude here where I started, with the Irish People, who have not yet had a chance to react in some way to being sold out by their Goobermint. After all the years of the Troubles, all the Blood that was spilled from the time of Sinn Fein to the Irish Republican Army, I simply cannot believe that there isn’t some long dormant cell that will awaken here, but I do for the moment have to accept the local wisdom of our Irish Expert Hubris that all the Irish will do is moan and complain to each other across a Pint of Guiness. Time will tell.

RE

PS: Since I wrote this last night, morning newz on Zero Hedge has it that Sinn Fein is trying to take over Goobermint Offices.

As Yogi Berra said. “It ain’t over till its over”

The Green Swan

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Posted on 16th November 2010 by Reverse Engineer in Economy

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Well, its possible tomorrow we will have a Kelly Green Swan come in for a landing.  The Money Pushers at the ECB have given the Mics a 24 Hour Deadline to request a Loan.  You can tell this one is reaching Crisis Proportions based on the way its being spun out in the Tabloids.

The issue here would be who are the MPs in the Irish Goobermint MORE afraid of?  Are they more afraid of the Pigmen Illuminati cutting them off from their Money; or are they more afraid of the Irish Republican Army?  Because I can about guarantee you that if the Irish are forced to swallow more debt to keep Bailing Out the Banksters, the IRA will get going on a Bombing campaign that will make Baghdad look positively peaceful by comparison.  The IRA never went away, they were just bought off through the years of the Celtic Tiger and false prosperity.  They are not new to the battle with the Illuminati, in the words of Delores O’Reardon and the Cranberries

“Its da same old ting since 1916….
Zombie, Zombie, Zombie….heyaaaa-aaaaa!”

You gotta KNOW that tonight about every MP got a phone call or a rock thrown through his home window with something like this written on a note tied to it:

“We KNOW where you live.  Be afraid.  Be VERY afraid.”

The Irish who stayed in Ireland through the Potato Famine and the years of  the “Troubles” are NOT long since domesticated Amerikan Konsumers.  It’s within MY living memory when 9 year old boys were out on the street throwing rocks at the British Gestapo.  Of the ones that lived through those years, they are in their 40-50s or so now, their sons are in their teens and 20s and they are all out of work, and you can bet dollars to euros and yen to yuan they have reached the limit of their patience by now.

I don’t know for sure of course that Tomorrow will be the Day of the Green Swan, but somewhere and sometime soon this whole merry go round is gonna come to a STOP.  The Frogs and the Greeks have already taken to the Streets, but in both cases while they are very familiar with the head bashing that goes with street rioting, for the most part they aren’t the kind of Take No Prisoners Guerilla Fighters that make up the Irish Republican Army.  These guys know how to make BOMBS, and they get plenty of Financial Support and Hardware from Retired Mics from the NYPD Bomb Squad, their cousins who exited Ireland at the time of the Potato Famine.

Either way this goes, its going to set off fireworks.  If the MPs fold to the Illuminati and sign the Loan papers, the IRA is going to AWAKEN, coming out of the Cave like a Bear who has been in Hibernation, and they will light up Dublin and Belfast Banks like a Christmas Tree, with enough C-4 Explosives to light up Rockefeller Center on Christmas Eve of 2012.  Political Assassinations are hardly out of the question.  That has been and always will be the Stock in Trade of the IRA.  They trade in REAL “democracy”, a REAL 2 Party system with REAL voting.  Like if you DON’T vote with them, you are DEAD DEAD DEAD. LOL.  The IRA learned LONG ago that you can’t really WIN against the Illuminati by playing by the Marquise de Queensbury Rules.  They are downright MEAN, and they TAKE NO PRISONERS.

If the MPs do NOT fold to the Illuminati fearing Retribution from the IRA, its an even BIGGER Fireworks display, just it will happen in the Bond Market and it won’t be just Ireland that gets lit up, because the Spreads on Portuguese, Spanish and Itie Bonds will widen to about the size of the Grand Canyon. Interbank lending will go into immediate LOCKUP and unless Helicopter Ben turns his Firehose on European banks with Currency Swaps to add liquidity, the whole financial system worldwide would follow into lockup. It would make the Lockup following Lehman seem as wide open and free as GAIA was 5000 years after Toba.  Can Helicopter Ben DO this now with Ron Paul just WAITING for an excuse to put his Balls to the Wall?  QE1 and QE2 have been EPIC failures, so I just don’t think HB has the Political Capital necessary anymore to single handedly determine monetary policy and spray out liquidity like the Money Shot in a low budget 70s Porn film.

How can the MPs sign these papers and request more Illuminati Dope?  Everybody KNOWS they can’t pay off the debt they currently have, more debt is just silly.  When you get this far underwater, the ONLY choice is to Default and go BK.  Somebody somewhere HAS to admit this, and the Irish seem to me like just the sort of folks who would do that.  For most of their existence the have been Poor and Broke, they got some time off from that with the false prosperity of the Celtic Tiger, but in their living memory they know how to live poor and broke.  That is what it IS to be Irish, and it puts them BACK in their element.  Unlike Amerikan J6P, I do not think the Irish are terrified of going Broke. They’ll storm the Guiness Brewery, distribute out the Stout and then proceed to bomb the living SHIT out of every Bankster property on the Island.  They got no problem WHATSOEVER living in a perpetual War Zone, they have been there since the Illuminati took control of the British Isles around the time sir Isaac Newton was Master of the Mint. From the 1700s to the present, the Irish Republican Army has been fighting the WAR with the Illuminati.  Read Leon Uris’ great Novel “Trinity”.  The BEAR that is the IRA is going to come out of Hibernation, and there will be HELL to PAY in Ireland.  “Get READY little lady, HELL is COMING TO BREAKFAST!” Cometh now it does to the Emerald Isle, and Coming Soon to a Theatre Near Them.

Just have to see how it plays out here tomorrow, and in the days and weeks to come. The only Can Kick possible is for the Irish MPs to fold to the Illuminati, but if they do that, they pretty much sign their own Death Warrants with the IRA.  Maybe not immediately tomorrow, but in the days and weeks to come.  The IRA will come looking for them, and they won’t be very forgiving when they find them.

Be afraid.  Be VERY afraid.

RE