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Friday, October 2, 2015

Retirement nest eggs being FRIED

Our retirement nest eggs are being FRIED by fees hidden by mutual fund firms
Regulators, the President and Congress are funded by these for-profit firms. We must fight for ourselves by moving our money to NOT-FOR-PROFIT firms. “The agency [SEC] had a reform proposal ready to go back in the early days of this administration, but the industry didn’t like it, so it never went anywhere.” The mutual fund industry says 12b-1 fees “help investors who are seeking advice about what offerings to buy” by paying brokers to make those recommendations. We are paying brokers hidden fees to push sales on other people. Fees can take 63% of our total accumulations. Cut fees. Double your nest egg: http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Financial-Advisors-Told-alternatives/dp/1478281545

Create a tax-FREE legacy for your grandchild (without a lawyer)
Ian and Margaret had an IRA of $33,000 they did not need for their retirement. They wanted to provide for their newborn grandchild. They did not want to pay a lot of fees to a lawyer or broker. They can convert this regular IRA to a tax-FREE Roth IRA for Douglas in small amounts so the taxes on the gains are not overwhelming each year. The new Roth IRA account will be invested in the Vanguard 500 Index. With 100% stocks, this account could reach $200,000 in 20 years or $600,000 in 30 years. At Ian’s death, this tax-FREE accumulation would go to Douglas without going through probate of Ian’s will. Douglas could take out all the money without income tax or he could let it continue; providing $15 million in another 30 years. Ian can add more grandkids anytime.

House votes to repeal ObamaCare AGAIN—that’s 55 or 56 times
The House has agreed to pass legislation that makes possible a repeal of the ACA’s controversial expansion of the definition of a small employer — a bill hailed by the benefits industry for protecting the small and mid-size businesses they feel the expansion threatens to harm. Most people work for small business and many do NOT offer health coverage. ObamaCare would expand the risk pool to include larger companies by 2016.

GOP tax plans reduce taxes for rich and cut services for rest of us
GOP candidates will increase defense spending, increase war mobilization, increase border security, increase deportations, and increase pollution of environment. Fewer tax dollars increases borrowing from China and cut wages, unions, DEM voters, women’s health, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, EPA, FDA, IRS, and Supreme Court.
Choice becomes clear for non-wealthy who will suffer; back to Robber Baron days!

Our next president?   Jeb still leading in the race (for dollars)

GOP zealots to shut gov Dec 11? poor women denied health screens? SS checks held?
Trump is example in Abnormal Behavior in 21st Century; Personality Disorders and Older Adults.             Trump’s tax plan gives tax break to richest—gov doubles debt to China.
Carson catching Trump = Trump can’t take No 2 in polls.
Fiorina: knows waterboarding torture works despite facts it did not stop terrorists
            She used it at Hewlett-Packard? Collected American citizens’ phone data.
Jeb warned by donors to show success but lacks positive vision.

GOP admits Benghazi committee just propaganda to ruin Clinton.
Clinton hidden emails are black hole she can’t escape.
Sanders found 650,000 contributors online for $24 million—can’t win … BUT

GOP getting desperate—Keep Dems from voting in Alabama
AL closes every DMV in the 10 counties with most blacks so voters can’t get ID

GOP inspires fire bombing of Planned Parenthood?
Arson investigators deemed fire suspicious. Gasoline fire doused by sprinkler saves building after GOP House and Fiorina implies PP is killing children.

Pope promises accountability for sex crimes—new tribunal?
Pope Francis on Sunday said he met in private with a group of victims of clergy sexual abuse and he pledged that “all responsible will be held accountable.” The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the nation’s most prominent support and advocacy group for victims of clergy sexual abuse, dismissed the pope’s actions. “A smart public relations move. That’s what this meeting is. Nothing more.”
Bishops paid $ millions for cover ups in many cities. Only 1 Msgr gets jail!

VW gives CEO $68 million after emission fraud tactic—reward, not indictment!
Carmaker suspended three top engineers—just suspension with pay? Other cars?
Some new Mercedes, BMW and Peugeot cars use 50 percent more fuel than laboratory tests show, saying this is evidence of a wider industry problem. VW said 11 million cars worldwide had defeat devices installed. Audi said 2.1 million of these were its own models, including the A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5. "It seems that VW has known for years about these manipulations. Executive bonus clawback? No jail?

Do you know how your family assets will pay for retirement?
Most women in retirement have HALF the assets their husbands have. Many are living on Social Security benefits alone—just $683.53 a month. Can you make it on that?
Find out where your family money is BEFORE you both retire.


HOW CONGRESS WASTES OUR TAX DOLLARS
America needs to take care of American’s needs FIRST!
Rebuild America Act: a five-year plan would invest $1 trillion and create or maintain at least 13 million decent-paying jobs—Senate Budget Committee but GOP says no.
We are still wasting $8 million per HOUR we don’t have in Iraq/Afghan/Ukraine.   Taliban captures Kunduz, a major Afghan city. Afghans run.
We trained and equipped ISIS leadership—US sells arms to all sides for profit
Residents of Okinawa object to tens of thousands of U.S. troops and military sitting there
We are supporting child abuse by Afghan leaders by giving them money.

We pay Afghans immigrants $17 an hour to teach Marines how to be nice to Afghans. Now immigrants want OT back pay!

SCAMS
Bundy still has not paid his rent to us—no Fed accountability—he spit in our eye
Fed and state seems helpless against this one rancher. What would happen if you said the IRS has no jurisdiction over your assets? IRS would take your bank account and jail you.

Health Republic Insurance of New York collapse
This Affordable Care Act insurer got $265 million in U.S. loans. It will stop selling policies and eventually cease operations under orders from New York and federal regulators. Health insurance CO-OPs have been hamstrung by both the structure of the program and the way in which the Affordable Care Act was implemented.

Regulators fine Fifth Third Bank—no jail time
The bank pays $18 million to harmed African-Americans and Hispanics for discriminatory auto loan pricing and for illegal credit card practices.

Thomas J. Palermo, advisor, Parkland, Fla., and four others charged with insider trading of Gilead Sciences. Paid fine—NO JAIL TIME—free to do it again.

Regulators fine debt collectors but—no jail time—NOT even name perps?
Westlake Services and Wilshire Consumer Credit deceived consumers by calling under false pretenses and using phony caller ID information, falsely threatened to refer borrowers for investigation or criminal prosecution, and illegally disclosed information about debts to borrowers’ employers, friends, and family. Owners can just do it again. See Don Hankey and his other operations: http://www.westlakefinancial.com/Pages/AboutWestlakeAffiliates.aspx


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Friday, September 11, 2015

Rich evade taxes forever. Legal but is it moral?

We pay more taxes so the rich can evade taxes forever. Legal; but moral?
The rich avoid taxes using lawyers like Edward Renn, Withers Bergman. With enough money you can buy his deal: “Tax-efficient trust structures that exempt assets from state tax or foreign grantor trusts that are exempt from U.S. income tax are as common as a domestic business succession structure designed to maintain the client’s control while minimizing or eliminating gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes." In other words, evade taxes. And their kids get to perpetuate this inequality.

You don’t need high-cost advisors to do better than Harvard’s team
Harvard University’s endowment had the worst performance of any of the eight Ivy League schools in 2013—just 11.3%. Yet its CEO at the time took millions from poor earnings. Harvard doubled compensation for Mendillo to $9.6 million in 2013, almost nine times what it paid its president, Drew Faust. You earned 32% in ’13 and 13.5% in ’14 using a low-cost index fund that Harvard should have used and keep the $9.6 million.

¿2016 President? “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” Alice

Trump: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?" 
Jeb will cut taxes for rich & corporations and borrow $3.4 Trillion; we pay more.
Sarah Palin wants to be Energy secretary under Trump but GOP to cut Energy. Palin sees             glaciers growing not receding like scientists say. “..weather NOT man’s doing.”
Cruz wants to shut gov again. If you closed your employer, would you go to jail?
Huck uses KY clerk to give Trump’s press a rest. If you refused a court order, would you    be applauded? Is Ms Davis afraid of going to hell for signing a government       paper? She should read John 4: 7.
Huck: “the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains the law of the land which says that             black people aren’t fully human.” GOP never reads history—see 14th Amdmt!
Christie gets United Airline CEO fired for giving Chris’s buddy free flights. OMG!

Warren: "Donald Trump and I agree that there ought to be more taxation of billionaires
Sander, Socialist, gets praises from Warren Buffett, Capitalist?
Obama: US to take 10,000 Syrian refugees—GOP stunned

We don’t save for retirement because ….
Schwab survey says more than one-third (35%) of us say we aren’t saving more for tomorrow because we are unwilling to sacrifice our quality of life today. OK, but if you had $3,000 a year without sacrifice, would you invest it in tomorrow? Most say yes. So what do you do with your tax refund? If you are receiving a refund, you are giving the government too much money. Use the money for your future instead with NO change in your life now. Give up nothing except expensive products and services.
  
Did you sell stocks in your 401k last month?
The index for last month shows that trading activity among 401(k) participants on August 21 was two times the normal level, while trading activity on August 24 was seven times higher than normal. The trading movement on those two days was out of stocks and into fixed income, according to Aon Hewitt. Unfortunately, you now have a loss. To get back to even money with fixed income will require 50 years or more given the low interest rates now. Long-term retirement nest eggs usually don’t recover lost levels using short-term interest-rate earnings. Stocks have long-term average earnings of 13% since 1980.

CA regs to reduce emissions killed by big oil
Unable to overcome fierce opposition from the oil industry and resistance from some Democrats, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced today that they will remove a major portion of an ambitious proposal to combat climate change, sources say. A provision calling for a 50% cut in petroleum use by 2030 will be dropped.

What is it like to live in CA without water?
Residents in the houses with dry wells are relying on deliveries of bottled water or perhaps a hose connected to a working well of a friendly neighbor. They may be taking "showers" with water from a bucket, using paper plates to avoid washing dishes, and eating sandwiches instead of spaghetti so there's no need for boiled water.

Lion killer says he did nothing wrong—someone will show him fun-killings are wrong!

US new coalition partner: Al Qaeda!
Al Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Declares War on ISIS 'Caliph' Al-Baghdadi


Pope OKs annulments (marriage never existed) and abortion?
How can a religion pretend that real “divine” events, “unions sanctified by God are indissoluble” never took place? How can a religion make “hundreds if not thousands of dollars” from such a fiction? “They wanted $8,000 to process my husband's annulment! I'm a Jew now," Desirée O'Clair tweeted. The "indissolubility of the marriage bond” is apparently NOT indissoluble with enough money (see chart). Also, now lowly priests can allow women with abortions back in the building, at least this year.
Why now?
"The church has been in sharp decline in both Latin America and Europe and Pope Francis sees such reforms as key to reversing the long-term slide."
So this is why ancient “beliefs,” canon laws, are changed.
Survey says 89% of ex-Catholics say they cannot imagine ever returning to the church, even though they like Pope Francis.

Who owns your account now?
Assurant’s employee-benefits business to Sun Life Financial, Canada.

SCAMS
We are still wasting $8 million per HOUR we don’t have in Iraq/Afghan/Ukraine.
America needs to take care of American’s needs FIRST!
Rebuild America Act: a five-year plan would invest $1 trillion and create or maintain at least 13 million decent-paying jobs—Senate Budget Committee but GOP says no.

Where would you be if you refused to pay your property taxes?
You would lose your property and perhaps part of your paycheck. But in the new era of Tea Party private rights and freedoms, you can ignore the law and do what you want. A year ago, Clive Bundy lost in court but won in gun showdown with the federals. Jail?

Joseph P. Zada, Wellington, Fla., and Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., swindled victims out of $50 million in a Ponzi scheme that spanned ten years by faking oil and currency trading through a top-secret board headquartered in London. Used excuses of Saudi family ties when asked about returns. Jail?

Bill collectors may owe you—just try to collect
Regulators found that Encore Capital Group and Portfolio Recovery Associates bought debts that were potentially inaccurate, lacking documentation, or unenforceable. Without verifying the debt, the companies collected payments by pressuring consumers with false statements and churning out lawsuits using robo-signed court documents.

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