Remember when Obama came up with that laughably stupid MyRA plan during his State of the Union address? The total amount of retirement assets in America, including 401k, IRA and savings accounts is around $21 trillion. Well get ready for forced confiscation of your 401k and IRA plans for retirement. If you are in 40s or early to mid 50s, then you are basically screwed.
A few years ago the government of the United States of America nationalized nearly 1/6th of our economy when they took over the health care system with forced mandates. In the process they essentially took control of $1.6 trillion in yearly industry revenues.
But that’s nothing compared to private savings. The total amount of retirement assets in America, including 401k, IRA and savings accounts is around $21 trillion. With our national debt coincidentally approaching the same, the government sees big money and potentially a way out of our country’s fiscal disaster.
This will start voluntarily with the MyRA and other state-sponsored programs. But when not enough Americans are making it their patriotic duty to turn over their funds to their government, they’ll mandate compliance with the stroke of a pen just as they did with the Patient Affordable Care Act.
And just like Obamacare it will be enforced by the barrel of a gun. Failure to comply will mean confiscation without recourse and prison time.
All they need now is a trigger.
And that trigger will likely come in the form of another stock market collapse. Wipe out Americans’ in a stock market crash and scare the heck out of them with more economic bad news, and millions of our countrymen will be all too willing to hand it over to Uncle Sam. Panic is a powerful motivator and what better way to get people on board than by threatening them with squalor and destitution in their old age if they don’t go along with it?
Government officials have been actively working to make this a reality for years. The Europeans are doing the same.
You can put your head in the sand or cover your ears and pretend this is not happening, but that won’t change the outcome.
They will take everything they can get their hands on.