Friday, November 30, 2007

The Next Bull Market

We are already in it, but you can't see it. It doesn't look like the 1 we had in '99. Like the prestidigitator who have you watching what he desires you to and with the other manus he is doing something else that is what is happening in the stock market today. The prestidigitator is the Dow Mother Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq or the S&P500 Index. These have got Toilet Q. Populace mesmerized.

The Nasdaq have given back 63% of the mass meeting high since September 17 low while the DJI have only sold off about 18%.

As you see these averages going almost sideways or down and your ain stock and common monetary fund portfolio is doing the same so you come up to the decision that the market isn't going anywhere right now. But there are 100s of pillory making new high terms for the twelvemonth just about every day. In fact, the bulk of pillory that compose the S&P500 are higher. Why aren't yours doing the same?

Analysts separate pillory into different groupings that they name sectors. There are common finances that bargain pillory associated with these sectors and then the finances are separated into classes called equal groups. If you are not in the strongest equal grouping you are not making money, but you cognize that. Or did you?

Picking an individual stock that volition double in a twelvemonth is very hard so I don't urge you try. Instead look to see which are the strong equal groupings to seek to happen a no-load common monetary fund that is doing better than others. There are tons of them when you cognize where to look. This going to take a batch of work so I get person to make it for me. Helium is an expert. A stock professional. A manager of a no-load common fund. No-load because I don't desire to pay commission.

Some common finances are limited by their charter as to what they may purchase so you can't travel with them. Others make not have got these restrictions. You restrict your choice to these. There are 3 that are very outstanding now – the Small Cap Value, Mid Cap Value and Real Number Estate equal groups. They are all in dual figure net income district while most common finances as a grouping look to be going sideways. These tin be most easily establish by searching on the Internet or calling a price reduction broker to see if he will get you a list. Most of them make not desire to make the work for you especially since there is no committee involved. If you care about your money you will make you have searching.

Making money in the market is all about being in the right topographic point at the right time, but no 1 is going to make it for you.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Finding A Good Stock

One of the things people are always asking me is how can I find a good stock. The answer I give does not please them. I say, "You are not qualified to pick stock. You don't know how so don't try. Put your money in a no-load mutual fund that is going up".

The next cry is, "I don't want to buy mutual funds. What do I do?"
OK, so I'll tell you. It is easy. You will have to do less than an hour of work. None of that Wall Street mythology about research which is all horse hockey. The way Wall Street does research is worthless. And don't listen to any broker. Advice from a broker is a eulogy for your money.

They want you to look at the company prospectus. This document isn't worth the paper it is printed on. It was not written for the investor; it was written to pass inspection by some Dilbert lawyer in Washington to see that it meets all the regulations. You can take a prospectus of a very good company and one of a company that has gone bankrupt and you will see they are almost identical. Throw them away.

Read the Annual Report. Another bit of smoke and mirrors. The title should tell you - Annual. Much of what is in it is a year old. Worthless. And let's hope it doesn't have a case of Enronitis.

Get a report from Morningstar. They know all about every financial statistic for a company that you can think of. You might even find out how many sugar lumps the CEO has in his coffee, but there is one thing you won't learn. If you buy this company's stock will it go up? What I am saying is that all the conventional wisdom methods of doing research are worthless. So what do you do?

On the Internet you can find a list of the best performing mutual funds. Go to www.smartmoney.com or www.yahoo/finance.com . There are other places also, but these 2 are very good. List the top 5 mutual funds (write down their symbols). Now go to www.bigcharts.com .
Put in the symbol for one of the funds. A chart will come up giving you a picture of the price performance of that fund. If it is going up at a 25-degree angle or more it means the fund manager is doing a good job of picking stocks. At the top of the chart picture there is a legend for Morningstar. Click on that. The new page will show near the bottom the major holdings of this fund. Again you need to get the symbols for his top 5 stocks and look at the chart picture for each one. If that stock is going up in a nice steady price over a period of time of 6 months or longer you have found a winner. Do this with several funds until you have found some stocks you like.

You have let a professional stock picker do all the work for you and now can piggyback his expertise at no cost. Please remember that when that stock turns down you want to sell it. You may be able to ride one up, but you can never tell when it will turn into another Enron. Always be ready to sell.

Monday, November 26, 2007

The Surgeon General

The Surgeon General of the United States states that smoke cigarets is noxious to your health. It is printed on every battalion of smokes you buy. When was the last clip a tobacco user read or paid any attention to it?

Don't you wish your brokerage account had some sort of warning telling you when to sell out of a stock or common monetary fund that is going down? How about "If this stock falls more than than 12% below its highest shutting terms the Money General states it should be sold and the money reinvested in a different equity"? Think of what that would have got done for your financial wellness during the past 2 years. Most people would be feeling a batch better.

Your broker is supposed to be a physician of finance and should be concerned about your financial well being. When you inquire him why your portfolio have gone down you probably will get one of two replies – "Don't worry, the market always come ups back" – except when it doesn’t. And "Buy and throw is the best strategy when you are in for the long haul". That long draw may be 20 old age to interrupt "even". Of course, that makes not do you experience any better when you see your money disappearing. It all come ups down to the fact he makes not cognize how to make this and have not been trained by the brokerage company. The same travels for most financial planners.

Financial contrivers will state you how to divide up your investing among stocks, bonds, common funds, existent estate and so forth, but they have got no thought when to sell out of a losing position. Neither brokers, bankers nor financial contrivers have got ever heard that cash is a position. Yes, cash in a money market account will not do large returns, but it will protect your money while the stock market is in a general microscope slide down. Think about this: what if your money had been in a simple 3% money market account for the past 2 years. Would you have got more than money today? Probably.

It is very hard to happen a broker who have any preparation in protecting your assets. If you inquire to see the preparation manuals for brokers you will happen two. One concentrates on learning all the ordinances and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Committee so they will not be sued and the other is a Sales Manual on how to open up new accounts and get investors to set in more than money. No direction on how to protect the investors money when a stock or monetary fund starts down. The 1 thing they are never taught is when to sell.

If you anticipate to have got financial wellness you must learn how to wisely put your money. There is no Money General or Easter bunny. You cannot trust on any "expert". Just as you are responsible for the wellness of your organic structure by what you set into it so your financial wellness is up to you by making certain you make not lose what you are putting away for your retirement.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Stealth Bull

If you have got been watching the stock market at all you are probably very confused. You are not alone. One twenty-four hours is a hundred points up for the DOW and the adjacent a hundred down. What is going on? There are many pillory that are going up and unless you are in the right 1s you will be left behind.

The professional money managers split pillory and common finances in subdivisions they name equal group. Many modern times you will happen that while the general market is going down there will be one or respective groupings that are going up. Also when the market is going up you will happen some equal groupings that are going in the other direction. Today there are equal groupings that are doing very well – small capitalization value pillory and funds, existent estate grouping and pillory located in emerging markets.

To happen individual pillory like these is pretty hard so I have got a professional make it for me. And he makes it free. I engage this individual to work 60 or 80 hours a hebdomad to make my research. If he doesn't make a good occupation I won't give him any money. He first have got to turn out to me he cognizes what he is doing.

Who is this cat that I can get to do me rich and not have to pay him? It is the manager of a no-load common fund. Fund managers were paid an average of $275,000 last twelvemonth so you won't have got to experience bad for him. In my sentiment most of them are over paid because last twelvemonth 90% of all stock common finances lost money. It is the other 10% Iodine desire to be invested in. Where are they hiding? Why hasn't your broker told you about them?

First, your broker will never state you about a common monetary fund that makes not pay him a commission. That is how he do his life so I can't fault him. There several topographic points you can happen first-class funds. If you don't have got a computing machine you may look in Investor's Business Daily newspaper. Once each hebdomad they will name the best acting common finances for the past 6 months. You will check them with your price reduction broker to see if they have got any committee charge. As long as that monetary fund stays in the top 15 on the listing you will have got a winner. When it drops below you sell it and purchase a better one. Yes, it's that simple.

If you have got a computing machine it is even easier. Go to www.smartmoney.com, chink on common finances and they will give you a complete list. There are many other web land sites with this sort of information.

If you are going to do money in the market you must be in the current strongest equal grouping sectors at all times. That agency that when the monetary fund you have starts down you must get quit of it in favour of one that is going up NOW. Never mind the 3-year and 5-year public presentation nonsense. With this strange amalgamated market we have got now you must be where the UP action is. The bull is sneaking around very stealthily. You can happen out where he is and fall in him.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Complacency

During the calendar month of January the Dow Mother Jones Industrial Average, usually referred to as the DOW, had an almost 1,000 point range, most of it down and the average investor have yawned and said 'so what, this have happened many modern times before'.

Is there any ground to worry now?

The awful event of September 11 aghast investors who sold heavily and then watched the market ascent back to where it was on September 10. The investment populace as well as many professional money managers now believe that soon this twelvemonth we will see the DOW move back up for another bull market like we had in 1999. Let's hope they are right, BUT say they are wrong. What will go on to the pillory and common finances you have now?

What will be the evaluation of those equities if the DOW knocks through the 8,000 degree and travels even lower? Bash you have got anything in topographic point that tin protect you from such as a catastrophe? Are there a solution to that possible disaster?

Yes, there is. And it is very simple.

If you believe that the market is going lower you could sell every stock you have and purchase some bonds, but no 1 cognizes for sure. If the pillory and common finances you have travel up you will kick yourself. Here is a sure-fire way to protect your money. Topographic Point an unfastened stop-loss order of about 10% under its most recent low price. That manner if it travels up you will be able to travel the halt up to lock in further net income and if it travels down you will not take a bigger loss. This is how every professional bargainer do money. You allow yourself to take large victors and only small losses.

The biggest problem with doing this is YOU. Huh? Yes, it is the fact that few people desire to sell even with a small loss. They prefer to sell with a large loss. I'm not joking.

I cognize the narrative all too well. Investors say, "When it travels back up, I'll sell and get out even" Or "It can't travel any lower. I'll throw on." How about this one, "How can I sell it now when it have dropped this far?" Folks, things aren't going to get any better. If you had had that stop-loss order in you would have got been out at a much higher price. With common finances you cannot put in a halt order so you must name in your order when it interrupts the terms barrier you have got set. Bash not trust on your broker to make it for you and make NOT allow the broker talking you out of it unless, of course, he desires to vouch in authorship that it won't travel any lower. And hogs can fly.

You cannot go self-satisfied and believe the great Wall Street prevarication that the market always come ups back. It may, but it might not be before you retire. Only you can protect your money.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Low Tide

When you stand up on the ocean shore and ticker the moving ridges breaking you might go aware that the tide is coming in or going out. It is a slow procedure to watch the H2O withdraw and when it finally gets to its lowest point it is almost impossible to state if it have stopped or will retreat further. Plenty of moving ridge action, but going nowhere.

This reminds me of our current stock market. It still looks like the tide is going out because for the last 2 calendar months all the major stock indexes have got been inching down. Even the talking caputs on CNBC are saying you must be cautious. They would be fired if they told you to sell. How can you state what is tam-tam on? Almost every analyst and broker looks at the major market indexes – the Dow Mother Jones Industrial Average, the S&P Five Hundred and the Nasdaq Index. On the surface they look very negative.

The DOW is composed of 30 large companies. The S&P500 have 500 companies of many sizes, but the number (index) generated is weighted by the size of the company. The bigger it is the more than it impacts the index. And the Nasdaq is smaller companies and have got got more than of the high technical school corps that have been hit so hard and are still having mucho trouble. The professional bargainers and common monetary fund managers associate more than to the S&P500. Almost all domestic stock common finances have got been lower in terms for the first quarter.

Even though the S&P have been slipping it is interesting to observe that 300 of the 500 pillory that do up the index are HIGHER. Yes, 60% of them have got continued to advance, but it doesn't demo - yet. When a market is changing directions it is similar to watching the tide halt going out and slowly change. That is what is going on now. The moving ridge action is there, but you can't see that the organic structure of H2O is now beginning to travel the other way.

There are some strong implicit in currents such as and the Small and Midcap Value stocks, Real Number Estate stocks, the Leisure grouping and Financials. This uses to picking individual issues as well as purchasing common finances that specialise in these areas. If you desire to be successful – brand money – in this market you must be with the strongest grouping so you must switch over from weak pillory and common finances to those that are currently strong. Fund managers state you to look at the 3 and 5-year path record and "stay for the long haul". All that makes is do money for him, not you. You must happen the no-load common finances that are going up the fastest during the past 3 and 6-month clip time period and purchase them now.

The lone manner to Buy and Hold is to purchase and throw only while they are going up and to sell them immediately when they begin to decline. Don't allow the weak pillory or finances carry your cash out with the money undertow.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Inertia

One of the basic laws of physical science is that a organic structure in movement will stay in movement unless disturbed by another force. What have this to make with the stock market?

For the last 2 old age the long-term trend of the market have been down with a few fleeting deviations. When a baseball game participant hits a ball it come ups off his chiropteran at full velocity and as it do its discharge through the air it slows down and is buffeted by the wind. Sometimes he hits a weak shot and once in a piece he gets a home run. You can almost state when it go forths the chiropteran whether it will be a good one.

On March 1 and March 4 the market came to the plate and it went up so fast and with so much energy it looks like we have got a home tally in the making. It have been my experience not to reason with an complete athlete. The jocks we are dealing with here are the professional bargainers such as as hedge monetary monetary fund and common fund managers. They have got come up forward and set their money where their oral cavity is. It looks like the ball is going to travel a long way.

You as the small investor will desire get on board while the ball is in the upward trajectory. Picking individual pillory is extremely hard as I discussed in last week's column, but it can be done if you desire to make the work. There is an easier way.

No-load common finances are the answer. Good 1s (that agency those that have got been going up steadily for the past 6 months) are relatively easy to find, Bash NOT bargain any monetary fund with a committee charge. If you do you will be starting in a hole and must creep out before you have got a opportunity to make money. Brokers will state you that the loading finances are better. They are lying.

There are respective topographic points to look. At the library you should see the Investor's Business Daily newspaper. In the Common Fund subdivision you will happen the top 25 finances for the past 6 months. This is not published every twenty-four hours so you will have got to look in respective issues to happen it. You can do a listing of the first 15 and in the same newspaper is the listing of all common finances you will see their toll free number. Call each 1 to be certain it have no committee charge or salvation fee. You can choose from this grouping for your investments.

If you don't have got a computing machine at home usage the 1 at the library and travel to www.smartmoney.com. Under common finances they will demo you a listing of the best acting finances for the past year. They also demo if they have got a committee charge. From this listing you will be able to purchase some very good no-load funds.

Which 1s you purchase are not that of import as long as they are going up. Never maintain any monetary fund that is not on one these lists. When they halt going up it is clip to sell them.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

More Than 500,000 Maine Residents Are Owed Unclaimed Money

Would you like to happen that the State Of Pine Tree State owes you money? Chances are good that mightiness be true! Unclaimed money totaling $122 million put waiting to be claimed in Pine Tree State Unclaimed Place Division. These lost finances are owed to half a million people nationwide!

Based on recent population statistics that agency a lurching 578,000 people are owed unclaimed finances in Maine.

Some unclaimed finances bank checks are being paid out in little amounts, $50 -$100, but there are big claims up to and manner exceeding $10,000+.

The biggest single claim in Pine Tree State is $222,000 asset stock! Wouldn't you be happy to cognize that was owed to you!

Maine lost money can come up from many places. It can be an old checking business relationship or an old nest egg business relationship you forgot about. It could be an heritage you were unaware of. It could be life coverage payments, stocks, chemical bonds or dividends... it could come up from many places.

Laws necessitate organisations to turn over abandoned finances after they have got lain inactive for about 3 years.

Last twelvemonth the state returned $10.4 million of Maine's unclaimed funds. This may look like a batch except there was $25 in new unclaimed money added. On norm Pine Tree State lost finances entire is growing by about $15 million per year!

Residents countrywide should seek to see if they are owed Pine Tree State unclaimed finances and take their money out of Uncle Sam's piglet bank.

You can carry on a simple search,by name, to see if lost finances owed to you, your household or your friends. When you carry on an unclaimed finances hunt a database should be utilized that screens state and federal databases, like www.cashunclaimed.com website.

Remember when searching to check up on up on the name calling of your household and friends and see if they are owed money too!

To claim the finances you must supply cogent evidence of designation and sometimes proof of ownership of the lost funds, for example, if it is an inheritance.

It is smart to check for Pine Tree State unclaimed finances about 3 to 4 modern times per year. Deposits are made into the states unclaimed assets division constantly throughout the year.

Information on how to claim finances that are owed to you can be establish on searchable database land sites like www.cashunclaimed.com. The needful word forms and information on the unclaimed money business relationship are also provided.

If you are not owed unclaimed money from Pine Tree State you may be owed money from another state or federal base. Unclaimed finances countrywide sum over $35 billion and are owed to millions of citizens nationwide!

Chances are you or person in your contiguous household is owed unclaimed funds, what are you going to make with the money you get?

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Information Age

It is fantastic to be alive in the information age. We cognize in a matter of seconds the change in the value of gold in Switzerland, the death of a human race leader or the birth of a provincial in Israel.

We are inundated with facts and figs and the emotional trials of both celebrated and ill-famed people. Can we possibly absorb all this? Bashes it assist us in our day-to-day lives?

When you get to analyse it you recognize all this information is just an agglomeration of material and incorporates no wisdom. If you were to memorise the Encyclopedia Britannica would that do you wise? Not really. You might cognize all about everything and you could reply inquiries on any subject, but unless you could correlative the facts and understand their interaction it would be of not much usage at all.

I am in the financial industry. Would it assist me to do more than money to have got memorized the Morningstar Manual? Oh, I would cognize the pe ratios and earnings of every company and a batch more, but will all that information state me if the terms of a company's stock will travel up? Again, not really.

Wall Street have the public believing the myth that you must make research; happen out everything about a company, its rivals and that industry. Now that you have got done that and all the figs state that according to conventional wisdom this is a "good" company makes that average the stock terms will travel up? Not really. When you make your historical survey you will happen there is hardly any correlativity in terms grasp and the fact it is a "good" company.

Financial research is worthless. If it were wisdom everyone would be rich.

The ground Wall Street brokerage companies take a firm stand you do nonsensical research is so you won't litigate them when their "recommendations" don't make you any money. There is only one thing you really need to know. Are the terms of the stock steadily going up? The simple manner to make this is to check the weekly shutting terms for the past respective years. You can get this information at the library. If it have a nice steady upward way what more than make you need to know? Everything that is known about this company is reflected in the last terms transaction. In that terms you are seeing all the world's research.

Information per se is not wise. It is the intelligent application of information that is wisdom. Apply your ain common sense wisdom. Don't listen to Wall Street.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Woman Business Loans UK - Giving Reality To Your Dream Business

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Friday, November 09, 2007

Stops Make Money

During the twenty-four hours I watch CNBC-TV, the stock market channel. Fortunately, I maintain the sound hushed or I would be hollering at the dense "experts" being interviewed. The experts look to cognize all about the market except they don't cognize how to protect their capital.

Every few proceedings there is a chart in bright yellow of some stock screening its terms public presentation during the past year. Lately it looks that most of the pillory have got lost from 50% to 80 or 90% of their value.

Oh yes, this beauty did travel up from 20 to 120, but is now back to 20 or some number very fold to erasing almost all of last old age profits, many departure to a loss. The observers give a nice running play account of the "reasons" this stock did what it did. All hindsight and we cognize hindsight is 20/20.

Not once have got got I heard one these aces ever suggest that a trailing halt would have sold out the stockowner at a nice net income within 10 or 20% of the top of the move. Microsoft went to $120 and proceeded to lose 50% of its value, dropping to $60. If you had had a distant trailing halt you might have got been sold out about $90 or better. If you are still in love with MSFT you may now purchase many more than shares than you had before. Brand sense?

There is a right manner to utilize stops, but the best is a mechanical method. Just put an amount you are willing to give back. Some bargainers urge an 8% stop, others 15% to 20% of the low of the former hebdomad placed with your brokerage firm each Monday morning time as a Good-Til-Cancelled sell order. There is also the simple stopping point below the 20-day moving average computed weekly. And many others. If you care anything about your money you might desire to make some survey to see the type of halt you might wish to use to protect your capital.

Most professional traders, and I cognize most people are not professional adequate to make this, will put their sell Michigan below what they see to be critical support. This is a matter of reading and necessitates experience. I can almost vouch your broker doesn't cognize how to make this so you should follow one of the mechanical methods. When your stock or common monetary fund is making that loud swishy noise going down the porcelain container your broker always come ups up with the sage advice, "You are in for the long term" or "The market always come ups back". In your lifetime?

Take a expression at some of the domestic dogs you are carrying in your portfolio right now. Figure out what would have got happened if you had set in a trailing stop. My experience of trading for more than than 30years have shown that if you had been stopped out that within 60 years that stock will be trading lower than your sell terms about 80% of the time.

The first regulation of investment is to protect your capital. Use stops.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Protect Your 401K

Checked your 401K lately? Going back to about a twelvemonth ago many of these retirement accounts have got shrunk by 30%, some even more. What Happened?

You have got got been putting money in for old age and your employer may have been contributing to your program also. It is not supposed to get smaller. You are planning to pass that money some clip in the hereafter when you make up one's mind to discontinue working. Along with your Sociable Security payments you should be able to keep your current lifestyle. But not if your 401K and individual retirement account maintain going down and down.

The is no shortage of bad intelligence when common finances such as as Fidelity Magellan is off more than than 30% and Janus 20 is down 63% and I could travel on and on. Now you have got a crisp hurting in your tummy when you read your statement and when you name your broker he gives you the old song and dance about being in there "for the long haul, don't sell". It is not his money.

If you have got your 401K with your employer who have a "professional manager" delight don't fault the boss. He is at the clemency of that "professional" too who is slowly having you all spell broke. These money mutilators are taught the three great myths of Wall Street - Make Research, Buy and Hold, Dollar Cost Average. These philosophies have got got been promoted for so many old age that they have go conventional wisdom. You don't need anyone to state you they make not work. All you have got to make is analyze the results.

Buy and Hold is the top slayer of profits. I know. Almost every broker will never state you to sell when your stock or common finances begins declining yet every professional bargainer will have got got got that as his first rule: have an issue strategy when your investing starts to either lose money or take away net income you have made. If you had been an proprietor of Janus 20 when it went from 40 to 94 and had a planned issue strategy you would have got sold out close 80 to protect your profit. Now it is trading about 35 and after 2 old age you have got a loss instead of doubling (and keeping) your money.

How can you protect yourself against this type of loss? Don't trust on your broker or financial planner. They have got too many clients to be able to watch your money. I said your money. You are the lone 1 who cares. And if you don't desire to take an interest in protecting it then you will be eating domestic dog nutrient instead of steak at age 65.

As the common finances travel up in your 401K or individual retirement account you must take a few proceedings once each hebdomad or at least once each calendar month to check the price. As you saw the $40 monetary monetary fund advance you put a mental stop-loss value of from 7% to 15% and when it travels down to that terms you must immediately transfer those finances either to a different fund that is still advancing or to a Money Market account. It is that simple and there is nil complicated about it.

If you don't protect your retirement account no 1 else will. Start today.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Social Insecurity

Just about everything you have got been told about Sociable Security is an obfuscation. That is a large word for convoluted truth or lie.

In a recently published indeterminate authorities written document by the presidential Sociable Security committee there are two pages that expose the truth. Neither Democrats nor Republicans desire you to read this. Shining the visible light of truth on the outlandishness of politicians seldom do them happy; however, you owe to yourself to cognize the truth.

When they take out from your paycheck for FICA - that's the Schutzstaffel tax deduction - the money is sent to the Sociable Security Trust Fund. Your money is held in the monetary fund for some hereafter day of the month when it is returned to you upon retirement. During that clip it is gaining interest at about 2%. Pretty shabby, but better than nothing. This is all well and good as long as the money is really there, but it isn't. What?

Now follow me with this beautiful spot of political dexterity of hand. The money is invested in U.S. Treasury bills. Good, sound and safe as it gets. Right? Wait. Let's understand what have happened here. The Federal Soldier authorities have got issued pieces of paper called Treasury measures which they have created out of thin air and replaced your existent money. The Federal have borrowed your money in the "trust fund" and given you a promissory short letter in the word form of a Treasury Bill. That money have now been transferred to the General Fund where our honorable politicians pass it on whatever piece of porc they want. That makes include necessities such as the Army, Navy and Marines, social welfare receivers and authorities employees like Senators and Congressmen.

Let's leap ahead to your retirement day of the month maybe 20 or 30 old age from now. You and thousands like you have got been putting in millions for all these old age and Uncle have been printing T-Bills. Now you desire your money back. Shucks, anyone cognizes you just cash in the T-Bills. Where makes the money come up from for the T-bill? From the authorities that created it. That agency those finances must come up back out of the General Fund, which is composed of taxes. But they already spent it. It's gone. Something is incorrect here.

The Federal took your money and set a piece of paper in its topographic point as a promise to pay when the clip came, but they did not back it up with anything except a promise to pay. All tax returns to Schutzstaffel people come ups back out of payments by others now paying into SS. But what if there is less money being deducted for FICA at that time? It is called a shortfall. What the Federal Soldier have created is a giant Ponzie strategy where the first people who invested in it get paid, but those who came in later get less, small or maybe nothing.

As long as there is a Federal surplus or a balanced budget you are OK, but when that vanishes it intends taxes on everyone must be raised to pay for the Schutzstaffel benefits. Smoke and mirrors.

Politicians don't desire you to be able to put any of your ain money because it intends they will have got less to pass and could care less what haps 10, 20 or 30 old age from now as they will be long gone.

That is the truth about your Sociable Security "Trust Fund". There isn't any and never have been.

Perhaps we were asking the incorrect inquiries this past election.

Our Senators/Congressmen make not pay into Sociable Security, and therefore they
make not accumulate from it. Sociable Security benefits were not suitable for them.

They felt they should have got a particular plan. Many old age ago they voted in their
benefit plan. In more than recent years, no congressperson have felt the need to
change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes, their
program plant like this:

When they retire, no matter how long they have got been in office, they go on
to pull their same wage until they die, except that it may be increased
from clip to clip by the cost-of-living adjustments. For example, former
Senator Bill Thomas Thomas Bradley (New Jersey) and his married woman may be expected to pull
$7,900,000 over an average life span, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000.00
during the last twelvemonth of her life. Their cost for this first-class program is zero,
nada, zilch.This small perk they voted in for themselves is free to them.

You and I pick up the check for this plan. Our tax dollars at work! From
Sociable Security, which you and I pay into every payday for our ain
retirement, with an equal amount paid in by our employer, we can anticipate to
have an averageof $1,000 per month. We would have got to accumulate our benefits
for 68 old age and 1month to be the Bradley's benefits.

Imagine for a minute that you could structure a retirement program so desirable,
that worked so well, that Railway Employees, Postal Workers,and others who
were not in the program would blare to be included. This is how good Sociable
Security could be, if lone 1 small change were made.

That change would be to dork the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan out from under
the Congressmen & Senators. Put them into the Sociable Security program with the
remainder of us. Watch how fast they repair it!

If adequate people have this message, maybe a seed will be planted and maybe
good changes will evolve.

Our miss Edmund Hillary Rodham Bill Clinton now come ups under this Congressional Retirement
Plan. Sspeaking of the Clinton's, it's common knowledge that in order for her
to set up New York State residency, they purchased a $million-plus house in
upscale Chappaqua, NY. Makes sense.

Now, they are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still do
sense. Here is where it goes interesting. A abode had to be built in
order to house the Secret Service agents. The Clintons now charge the Secret
Service rent for the usage of said abode and that rent is just about equal
to their mortgage payment, meaning that we, the tax payers, are paying the
Clinton's mortgage.

And it's all perfectly legal.

Friday, November 02, 2007

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