Domestic Policy: December 2008 Archives

• Diabolical New Congressional Plans to Fund Emergency Bail-Outs By Meddling, Manipulating, and Even "Merging" Tax-Deferred Retirement Plans Such as 401(k)s into the Insolvent Social Security System.
   
• A Desperately Cash-Strapped Liberal Congress Will Soon Double-Cross Taxpayers and Investors With Massive Changes and Absolutely No Warning.

Read This ALERT Now Because You Must Avoid Becoming Part of the Herd At ALL COSTS. "Innocent Bystanders" Will Receive No Mercy in Breathtaking Changes to Come.

Dear Fellow Concerned American:

    Let me get straight to the point because there isn't a moment to lose.

    The Great Depression wasn't caused by the "failure of business." It was a financial downturn that became an abyss -- spawned by the government's reactionary, blunderbuss response to the crisis.

    Sound familiar?

    Yes, the first squall line of the unwinding U.S. debt pyramid (I warned my subscribers about two years ago) is coming home to roost -- in spades. Even former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has since admitted the entire U.S. financial system is in the throes of a "once-in-a-century" financial emergency.

    Much as I would like to tweak naysayers with an "I-told-you-so," there isn't time to dwell on vindication. This is time for action. Obviously, despite massive election-year manipulations, the political class has failed to stop the initial stages of the U.S. financial system's collapse.

    Even worse, we are now witness to the arrival of what The Wall Street Journal describes as the new "Liberal Supermajority."

    The hard reality is U.S. voters have run into the arms of Barack Obama's "spread the wealth" brand of socialism, which means productive people like you and me need to stay calm -- but think proactively and act resolutely to defend what belongs to us.

    With "Obamanomics" being the flavor of the month and all, now is probably a good time to apologize in advance for the unvarnished assessments you are going to see in this briefing. Unfortunately, events are moving too fast for me to waste time on diplomacy and polished prose.

    After all, Congressional committees are already holding hearings on how the government can "tap" millions of 401(k) retirement funds to stave off the Social Security system's emerging insolvency crisis (more details about that potential legislative bombshell later on).

    At key moments of decision such as this one, I believe embracing truths -- especially unpleasant ones -- leads to understanding, and from understanding comes action. Ignoring or denying the situation confronting our country is the worst possible thing to do now. Especially now.

    Economy-transforming events are moving at lightning speed (and the new Congress hasn't even been seated yet).

    It is no longer enough to understand how markets work -- it is now far more important to avoid being on the wrong side of unprecedented, massive government intervention that will transform millions of responsible people into unwitting paupers. If you handle this situation correctly, you can be among the lucky few who come out ahead!

    You see, I have been covering Congress for more than 20 years as editor of American Sentinel (and before that as an aide to two members of Congress), and I can tell you the coming government interventions will be FAR MORE devastating than the initial stock market crash we just saw in October.

    All government interventions create financial winners and losers. And you'll only get one chance to make sure you're on the right side of that equation.

    My name is Lee Bellinger, Publisher of the monthly financial, health, and taxation intelligence advisory Independent Living. In my two decades of publishing discreet information about government threats to your liberty, health and prosperity, never have we produced as important a set of critical, must-read documents as contained in my popular Wealth Protection Library for the Obama Era of Rising Socialism and the additional bonus reports.

    I want to send ALL TEN reports to you FREE because it is my understanding you are a think-outside-the-box, "keep-ahead-of-the-herd" thinking individual. I know for a fact you need its RED-HOT information on how to protect yourself.

    It contains very in-depth information -- strictly for my most serious, answer-seeking subscribers who want to delve into the nuts and bolts of protective actions you need to take now.

    For example, it hasn't made much news yet, but some very well-known insurance companies are poised on the verge of sudden and unexpected collapse! In one key report I want to send you right away, you learn all about this ominous threat.

    Equally important, you will learn how financially stable YOUR insurance company is right now. The specter of an insolvency crisis among major U. S. insurance companies is a Sword of Damocles hanging over millions of people's heads and they don't even know it! This is absolutely must read stuff you won't find anywhere else (until it becomes BIG news, of course).

    You also need to know about all the game-changing laws embedded in just-passed emergency legislation, why your stock broker can't or won't lead you to safety, which banks are safe, how to get first rate medical care even in the new environment of socialized medicine, and on and on!

    In fact the radical-dominated House Education and Labor Committee is already floating plans to "merge" privately-owned 401(k)s with the Social Security system (which former U.S. Comptroller David Walker has been warning is little more than a vault of government IOUs).

    In such a "merger" -- spearheaded by House committee chairman Rep. George Miller (a Marxist hailing from California's Berkeley area) -- your tax-sheltered personal investments would be liquidated, dumped into government bonds, and linked up with the cash-desperate Social Security "retirement" system (i.e. as government bureaucrats "spread the wealth," and you are reduced to standing in line, hat in hand, hoping you get some portion of your life savings back). (Of course, your purchasing power will evaporate after the federal government inflates away the value of your so-called "Guaranteed Retirement Account," or GRA as it would be named.)

    Without the right information to guide you in these treacherous times, there is a very good chance you could come out on the short end of the stick, joining millions of other hapless investors. But I am determined to not let this happen. Not to me, my business, my family, or my subscribers.

    That is why at the end of this letter I'll tell you how you can get some very important NEW reports developed just for this unfolding crisis. (We have worked on them very hard -- hoped I would never need to tell you about them, but financial catastrophe is knocking at the door.) More about that later. Let me explain the problem in more detail now.

    Even though more Americans have started to grasp what a house of cards our nation's finances truly are, the "other shoe" has yet to drop. The real danger still isn't very well understood: Congress' draconian, freedom-stealing, investor-bashing, wealth-destroying reaction that threatens to end what's left of free-market capitalism in this country.

    Business and investor bashing is coming back into style in a big way.

    Lots of people are going to get hurt in the cross-fire of political blame-games and the punitive regulatory response which is at the very heart of "Obamanomics" -- now barreling at the private sector like an out-of-control freight train.

    The early indications are disturbing. Not just the many "emergency" stock trading restrictions that are suddenly being slapped into place, or wholesale changes in rules which shot-gunned banking giants and their hapless investors into the ruinous maw of public ownership. What's really scary are coming new financial controls which threaten to double-cross people who play by the rules and are counting on the integrity of their investments.

    I am deeply concerned for America's middle class, small businesses, and our whole way of life. We are living in a minefield!

    Let me give you just one terrifying example: If the insider information I am receiving is correct, you need to brace yourself for the possibility of a federally-imposed "banking holiday," to stem panic withdrawals and to sort out all the black holes that have appeared on the banks' balance sheets. According to my sources, one of America's largest banks has already prepared for such a possibility by having door signs printed up explaining they will be "closed until further notice."

    One of the biggest risks is, too many people are still looking to the government idiots who got us into this mess for salvation. I don't know what makes me angrier, the rip-off artists in the political class who wrecked the U.S. financial system and chased millions of great jobs overseas, or the gullible general public who continue to believe government ninnies can "fix" the very fiasco they created.

    It wasn't greedy lenders who created the subprime mortgage debacle. The lenders were merely participants in a scheme hatched in Washington by federal authorities to artificially inflate U.S. home-ownership rates.

    In 2002, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were issued radical new Affirmative Action lending quotas from politicians kowtowing to the Marxist ACORN and other radical groups.

    Their mandate: increase "minority" home ownership by 5.5 million by the year 2010. The only way the mortgage industry could meet such demands was to eviscerate traditional lending standards. Now that the federal government has taken over Fannie and Freddie after having driven them into insolvency, guess who is on the hook for the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad mortgages on their books? That's right, you and me, the taxpayers.

    The planning and investment rules you and I have followed all our lives are being re-written -- quite literally -- as you read this letter! We are witness not just to the government takeover of the U.S. financial sector, but to the many new dangerous pieces of emergency legislation coming down the pike. Each of them will be crammed with bureaucratic power-grabs and other nightmare provisions which will fleece unsuspecting millions.

    Now is a terribly dangerous time to be following the herd.

    My Wealth Protection Library for the Obama Era of Rising Socialism contains a core of seven of my very best, hot-off-the-presses Special Reports. Each was developed specifically for the crisis window we are in right now.

    Let me explain each of them in turn and why it is vitally important I rush them to you immediately -- not just for your sake, but for your family and friends as well. I hope you use what you learn to help protect everyone you know from falling into the financial traps being set for them.

    The early death throes of the besieged U.S. financial system are truly scary, which is why I began developing this critical subscriber briefing shortly before this crisis started to unfold in August of 2007.

    Right now, Congress, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve are readying helicopter drops of cash and federal bailouts that could ultimately crush the dollar. That's why capital controls are coming. The powers that be are absolutely determined to prevent millions of middle class Americans from fleeing the U.S. financial system to protect themselves. They have already moved to discourage asset-expatriation by imposing a punitive tax on the value of unsold assets any person of means dares to try to take overseas. And just recently, the harried Republican minority barely beat back a plan to punish people who have invested in commodities such as gold and silver.

    Dangerous new investment controls are poised for enactment without warning or notice. For example, when Treasury Secretary Paulson first submitted his $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan to Congress, it was only three and a half pages. The final "product" signed by the President a mere 10 days later was a whopping 451 pages -- packed not just with billions in new pork-barrel spending garbage, but also crammed with hidden, sweeping new powers for federal regulators.

    One provision of the bailout bill, for example, gives the IRS unlimited authority to conduct "sting" operations (previously such authority was only granted on a temporary basis due to the likelihood of abuse by overzealous IRS agents). This of course is just the beginning!

    This astounding, brand-new report gives you the shocking lowdown on the freedom-stealing, investment-destroying provisions of this "emergency" legislation, including:

• Sweeping new IRS powers that encourage them to go after small businesses and individuals, especially those who dare to flee the dollar.
• New hidden energy taxes gas stations and utility companies will soon be passing on to you.
• A jump of $17,064 in new Federal debt per U.S. family.

    It's no wonder Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the House basically to declare "martial law," so that the contents of the new bailout plan would not be posted to the Internet for public scrutiny. Fortunately, as a former aide to two members of Congress, I know all the tricks legislators use to sneak dangerous wealth-destroying provisions into law.

    My report Capital Controls "Team Obama" Can Impose Without Warning to Corral Citizens in Dollar Denominated Assets also gives you the latest inside skinny on frightening new capital controls that will:

• Prevent you from evacuating your precious retirement assets from the dollar and harboring them in more fundamentally sound overseas investments and currencies.
• Discourage, and all but ban, investment and trading in precious metals.
• Force gold exchange-traded fund investors to accept "cash" for their share in precious metals.
• Force you to stay in declining dollar-denominated assets.
• Partially (or totally) restrict 401(k)s and IRAs to inflation-lagging bonds and certain other dollar-denominated assets decreed to be "safe."

    Access to your own money in the bank may be restricted as well in the form of a federally imposed "banking holiday" I just mentioned. Customer withdrawals could at times be suspended to prevent further bank runs or simply restricted by limits and regulatory hamstrings.

    It's no accident that Congress is holding full scale hearings designed to blame private investors, "corporate greed," and business in general for the ills the political class and its enablers at the Federal Reserve have inflicted on the country. Members of Congress know that with all the emergency legislation coming, the grip they and their bureaucratic partners will have over the economy is poised to tighten.

    You need to be ready for all the surprise financial controls soon to come down the pike. And the many other diabolical ways they'll come up with to steal your money in the name of all this Barackian "we're-all-in-this-together" political crapola.

    You can't get this information anywhere else, because most of the dangerous capital controls Congress has in mind haven't been enacted yet. You can only find this information here. This report spells out what is likely to come and how you can protect yourself. Details on how to get your hands on this information can be found at the end of this letter.

    Subprime-intoxicated Washington Mutual recently became the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Even with massive liquidity injections by federal authorities to try to arrest further calamities, the fundamentals of the U.S. financial system remain markedly unsound. That means many more bank failures are likely to come.

    So this is a must-have report for you to share with friends, loved ones and associates at work. In it you will learn how to:

• Determine EXACTLY where your bank stands financially.
• Avoid runs on the bank long before they ever happen.
• Find out if regulators are likely to shut down your bank.
• Hoard emergency cash (and cash alternatives) in case a panic causes banks to shutter their doors and ATM machines to empty out.

    Congress recently expanded FDIC protection guarantees from $100,000 to $250,000 and gave the grossly under-capitalized Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation a preemptive bailout by establishing a special line of credit for it with the U.S. Treasury. This massive new U.S. Treasury obligation may be reassuring to many bank account holders. But we both know these FDIC guarantees (which are ultimately backed up by the government's virtual printing press) do nothing to ensure banks will actually remain solvent or open for business.

    This is crucial survival information, but if you put off obtaining it until circumstances present you with a clear and present need, it will be too late. The name of the game is being prepared in advance. Learn how to get all the newly updated information you need at the end of this letter.

    If in the past you talked with your broker about getting out of U.S. dollar-denominated financial equities or "mainstream investments," it is very likely you were told you to "stay put." Maybe you are even being told that now. This report tells you why. Millions of Americans are waking up to the harsh reality that their brokers have steered their 401(k)s, IRAs, and other accounts straight over a financial cliff.

    This special investigative report shows you how most brokers are compromised -- you will be red-faced with anger when you see how the system is rigged, for example, to pawn off lousy U.S. banking and finance stocks onto corporate 401(k) plans, pension plans, and private clients.

    Some of this truth is starting to seep out. On October 6 The Washington Post published an article about the failure of pundits and experts on popular mainstream financial shows on CNBC to foresee the chaos now roiling credit markets. "We all failed," noted regular CNBC contributor Charlie Gasparino, who added "What we didn't understand was that this was building up."

    Perhaps Gasparino was referring to CNBC "experts" such as Jim Cramer, who told millions of viewers "NO NO NO" to getting out of the now-belly up Bear-Stearns investment group, a full week before the stock's values dropped from $47 per share to $1.00 per share. Two weeks before Wachovia bank got sold in a panic, Cramer had its CEO on his show, urging millions of people to invest more in the now-defunct bank.

    As this report shows, financial "reporting" networks such as CNBC are funded by the very banking interests which are seeking to unload underperforming assets on unsuspecting investors. In it you will learn the MANY perverse incentives Wall Street interests have put into place to "herd" millions of 401(k) fund managers to sink YOUR money into crummy financial stocks and other underperforming companies which are dangerously dependent on easy credit, cheap energy, and debt-driven consumerism.

    This report is a rude introduction to the real world of how investment has come to work in this country. You will never see Wall Street the same after you have read it.

    It goes without saying Barack Obama and the new radical-left Congressional majority plan to wipe out most of what's left of private-sector medicine.

    But long before Obama had a serious chance of winning, I had already been clueing my readers into a little-understood, disturbing trend: The flight of medical research and investment from American shores to more business-friendly countries from Israel to India.

    The flight of cutting-edge medicine from U.S. shores has been spurred by overreaching, dangerously-ignorant political class -- who have made a complete hash of medical innovation in the United States of America. The government's own slanted numbers even acknowledge it now costs more than $800 million to introduce a new drug in U.S. markets -- due to frivolous class-action lawsuits, high tax rates, power-mad FDA bureaucrats, and ignorant, hostile politicians.

    This investigative Special Report shows you how smart Americans are going abroad to save 90% on heart surgery, 70% on knee operations, 80% on major dental work, and even getting liver transplants for a fraction of the cost (and, let me stress, these procedures are being done in first-rate, fully-certified cutting-edge medical facilities with top-notch, mostly U.S. doctors).

    These smart, ahead-of-the curve Americans are securing first-rate medical care for a fraction of the cost by going abroad (and in many cases getting a great vacation in the process).

    What's important to understand is the question of creeping socialism in America has been settled. A federal takeover of more and more medical decisions is inevitable now.

    By getting this report, you are putting into your hip pocket some very important information on how to get Senate-level medical care abroad, free of the regulatory, legal, and tax burdens which are driving cutting-edge medicine off shore. You or someone you know stands to benefit hugely from this report, which shows you how smart expatriates are saving big money on necessary medical procedures. For example:

    Even if you or your loved ones never need access to cutting-edge medicine for a fraction of the cost, this report shows you how smart Americans are investing in the growing trend toward expatriate medicine. In short, you will learn how to benefit from the saddening flight of medical discoveries from our shores due to the calamitous ignorance and over-reaching of the U.S. political class.

    This is information you won't find anywhere else.

    Hot off the presses! Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson recently observed that capitalism as we know it is dead (in response to the government takeover of the mortgage industry he helped engineer).

    Even during this election year, it has been clear early on that the next president would expand Big Government, not contain or reduce it.

    So we have been hard at work developing strategies for surviving and prospering in an environment where government is increasingly choking off and even swallowing up the private sector.

    In preparation for this era of ascendant socialism, we studied what successful investors did to protect their savings and even thrive in the stagflationary 1970s.

    Even better, we took a close look at what the smart money did during the Great Depression -- allowing a small number of people to amass great wealth even as everyone else lived like paupers. These timeless principles have been updated for use in this new crisis environment and the Big Government response that will follow.

    This outstanding report contains all-new, up-to-date information about how to protect your assets and grow your wealth in the context of recently-unfolding events. Even as "experts" who never saw this financial meltdown coming now scramble to put out usable advice, you can have vital time-tested information at your fingertips. This information is totally comprehensive and far ahead of the curve.

    This report ALONE can help you increase your wealth in these coming hard times and is well worth the small price I am asking at the end of this letter.

    Earlier in this briefing I warned of coming new capital controls designed to prevent private U.S. citizens from protecting the value of their savings (from what commodities investment king Jim Rogers recently described as a "coming inflationary holocaust"). This Special Report gives you all the information you need to safely hedge your cash in foreign currencies before Congress cuts off this escape route.

    Despite the recent rally sparked by global deleveraging, the fact of the matter is that the U.S. dollar is a fundamentally flawed currency. We are the world's largest debtor nation. And we are now embarking on the biggest financial-system bailout in the history of mankind. Because of Washington's unprecedented fiscal recklessness, once this deleveraging ends, the plug is likely to be pulled on the dollar.

    While the unfolding demise of the dollar saddens me, it is important to understand how to invest in gold, foreign equities, or foreign currencies -- as easily as you can open a bank account or buy a stock.

    This report shows you the best, safest ways to convert your dollars into stronger, better-yielding currencies.

    Congressional insiders are telling me future emergency financial "rescue" legislation will be packed with provisions to force institutional investors (such as pension funds) to keep their money in U.S. debt securities or U.S.-owned and operated companies (all in the name of "safety" and "patriotism," of course). As the crisis deepens, these restrictions could be expanded to all private citizens through the brokerage houses they use.

    This Special Report gives you the very latest information on how to evacuate assets out of the collapsing U.S. financial system while it is still legal and safe to do so. Specifically, it spells out five crucial ways to protect your money before Congress slams the door on this option forever.

    In the 1930s, the Roosevelt Administration ripped off millions of people who had the foresight to buy gold. Today, our government is far more ruthless and far more powerful. Little-known laws and executive orders already in force give the president the power to confiscate gold simply by declaring an emergency.

    This report carefully explains the most probable methods the government will use to rip off holders of precious metals. Crucial reading -- especially if you own gold in the form of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or other gold-backed paper instruments.

    Under certain conditions explained in this report, federal bureaucrats have the power to confiscate gold or precious metals held by ETFs, and simply issue "cash" payments to the owners. It is VERY important you know what signs to look for in advance of this form of asset confiscation.

    You need this important information right away because once confiscations start, there will be no stopping them or getting out of the way at the last minute. You must think these risks through in advance! There is LOTS of new information contained in this hot-off-the-presses report. I want to get it to you right away.

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    Even more troubling than the financial gyrations we have seen is the unfolding political reaction to the emergency. The new Congress is already busy planning even more hearings to blame investors and businesses for the mess political interventionists have spawned.

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Just three weeks from today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the next President of the United States. Joining him will be larger, more emboldened liberal Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate has just been elected president and his party controls the rest of government… who is going to stop them?

No longer can we hope for a presidential veto to stop anti-freedom legislation, obviously. Even our hope for Senate filibusters from a principled minority to stall laws that would raise our taxes, grow the government, and steal our freedoms is nearly gone, given the Democratic caucus has grown to just short of a filibuster-proof majority.

The only check on liberal Democratic power in Washington will be loud grassroots opposition.

However our only hope to mount an effective challenge depends on your continued support today. That’s why, with time so short, I write to ask you to please send – as fast as you can – the most generous special, year-end donation to FreedomWorks you can afford.

Make no mistake: we are at a precipice, a critical juncture in American history.

But in the midst of this darkness, we have an opportunity to make the case for free markets and limited government like never before. What you and I do right now, today, could very well save capitalism next year and lead to a resurgence of liberty in two years.

But I have to tell you in full honesty, we could crumble in a socialist ash heap – especially if we don’t make our stand together now.

Today, it is unclear which path history will follow tomorrow, or which fate the cause of liberty will realize.

I don’t need to remind you what will be at the top of President Obama’s, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s agendas come Inauguration Day on January 20: Higher taxes. More government. Less freedom.

I believe that we are closer than ever to when the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission!

In these uncertain times, I am certain there is more need now for FreedomWorks than there has been since our founding 24 years ago.

I remain convinced that Sam Adams was right when he said, “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”

We are that tireless minority.

You and I and others like us are the only remaining check on the ambitions of those burning for ever-more government control. And we must fight harder than ever for the ideals on which our country was founded, which have brought unprecedented freedom and prosperity to every American.

Will you join me by sending a special, year-end gift of $25, $50, $75 or even $100 to FreedomWorks today?

We must prepare now if we are to have any hope in the battles ahead. That’s why your most general support now – through a special, year-end donation – is so desperately needed.  I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Matt Kibbe
President

Big labor unions have destroyed countless American industries, including the Detroit automakers who are now begging Congress for a bailout. But these unions don't just control factories and assembly lines. Our public education system is a slow-motion car crash, driven the same union special interests that brought the auto companies to the brink of bankruptcy.

This insightful new video shows how teachers unions protect bad and incompetent teachers, block school reform efforts, and use their members' dues money to support a radical left-wing agenda.

The Truth about Teachers Unions from Union Facts on Vimeo.

 

Compared to other developed countries, the United States has the worst educational quality per dollar spent on schools, ranking 18th in reading and 28th in math. Millions of American children are being shortchanged by dysfunctional schools, but efforts for education reform are invariably stopped by powerful union interests.

These unions fight tooth and nail against any meaningful change to their comfortable status quo - while students and taxpayers pay the price.

After decades of denial, there is a growing realization around the country that teachers unions' defense of the status quo cannot continue. A new generation of reformers, including Michelle Rhee, the chief of public schools in Washington DC, are fighting those unions and pushing for renewed accountability and an end to the broken tenure system.

TeachersUnionFacts.com is a project of the non-profit Center for Union Facts. With your support, we can fix our public schools and expel these special interest groups. Your tax-deductible donation will help us show Americans the truth about today's teachers unions.

Please make a contribution today, and forward this message to your friends, family, and anyone interested in helping take back our schools.