Friday, August 26, 2016

Don takes credit for other people's money

Don takes credit for other people’s money so as President …
Last year, Don took credit for creating a golf course he does not own, did not pay for and yet gets all the fees from. “I want to thank my family because they put up with me,” Trump told the crowd. “They say, ‘He’s crazy, he’s got to be crazy.’ But we knew we could get it done.” Don’s company manages it for the city, whose taxpayers spent $127 million to build it in an old Bronx garbage dump. Don got 20-year deal to keep almost all the fees. Taxpayers get the utility bills. Don got $8 million in revenue while taxpayers covered $1 million in water and sewage bills. He claims the course in his net worth. His election video claims he “transformed a landfill into a championship public golf course and saved the city millions.” As Prez, Don will do Don’s deals and we will pay tax bills.


Does market timing provide higher returns?
BlackRock, the index trading firm, found that if you were out of the market just 5 days over the last 20 years, your $100,000 investment would fall from $478,171 to $317,215. That is 5 of 7300 or 0.06849315% of the time. It costs you $161,000! Or about 33% of your gains. And it you let it ride on the index, your ½ a million will double in about 7 years.  It is TIME in -- NOT timing the market that counts. Market timing requires you know exactly when to get out and ALSO when to get back in. There are simply too many unknowns for even the biggest computers and minds to figure the market ups and downs. There are so many ETFs that even when they make money, they’re unprofitable: they close. And when they do well, less than half of them do well the next years. So when your advisor tells you it is time to buy or sell you can point out a BlackRock fact. That will impress them and you will be richer and won’t need their advice anymore.  


GOP wants BIG govt help for themselves but not for others
GOP voted against Sandy help for NY and NJ but wants govt money for own state
These Louisiana politicians are demanding flood aid but voted against Sandy relief. VP Pence was against AIDS needles for other addicts but FOR needles for his own state. GOP states are voting to change the Constitution to suite their own private politics. Koch Bros, who helped pay for GOP dominance, claim they are against gov subsidies but take them for themselves. Koch has pushed KS to cut schools, roads, staff and now no company wants to live there. Koch got tax break. Congress people vote against insider trading for us but allow it for themselves and get rich. GOP voted to shut down the government and it cost us $ 24 billions BUT they got paid. TX judge tells all states not to follow Obama’s bathroom policy. Don is or isn’t backing off his stance on deporting 11 million. We deported 235,413 people last year; 409,849 in 2012. Don’s group says he will need 90,000 new agents and 1,250 new courts and judges at $300 billion. Plus their labor worth $1-trillion is lost. GOP never pays for their ideas, like deregulation. It will cost $300 billion to fix GOP’s Flint water-saving idea. GOP says US must pay: https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Socialism-Rich-little-people/dp/1535218584

What is the Ultimate Automatic Wealth Management account?
Fidelity found that their client accounts that were most successful were those put on automatic—left alone—forgotten. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” Warren Buffett claims that his holding period is forever. He advocates compounding (allow earnings on earnings to grow exponentially): "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest." Robo-advisors work because money does NOT trade, rebalance, market time, buy high-sell low or sector rotate. It compounds exponentially. Besides you might end up with a “boy genius” broker that Morgan Stanley “neglected” until too late. One client lost $700,000 life savings and arbitration awarded her $150,000 refund.

Is a hedge fund right for your pension?
More than 80 percent of investors redeemed at least a portion of their money from hedge funds in the first half of 2016, according to a study by Credit Suisse Capital Services. Underperformance by specific hedge fund managers was responsible for 53 percent of those redemptions, according to the study. Brevan Howard Asset Management last year cut 50 jobs because of losses. John Paulson rose to legend-status when he earned a reported $4 billion betting against subprime mortgages during the financial crisis. But now, from 2008 to 2016, hedge funds have averaged 2.5 percent. And the low-cost Vanguard balanced fund has averaged 9.96%. High-cost hedge funds are competing against themselves and you are better off with market returns of 10-12%.


Is taking Social Security benefits EARLY right for you?
Yes, you can start your benefits early but you lose 25% for the rest of your life. You can’t reverse the decision so you need to meet with your local office and your financial advisor before deciding. This website has helped some http://www.myretirementpaycheck.org/ and you should read your statement at https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/. Waiting past your official retirement age (67+) bumps up your benefits each year. If you still work past this age, your wages may increase your later benefits. Generally, the calculation is based on your highest years’ incomes. This is why all the fireman and police work overtime during their final years. It adds to their pensions too. If you work after retirement SS reduces benefits: If you go back to work before reaching your full retirement age, $1 in benefits will be deducted for every $2 you earn above the annual limit (which is $15,720 in 2016). EXAMPLE: You retire early and go back to work before you reach your full retirement age. In that time you earn $30,000 in salary. Because you are $14,280 over the annual limit, your Social Security benefits are reduced by $7,140.


Don’s Apology?: “Sometimes in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues,   you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that." 
Hill’s Apology?: “I followed advice of Colin and other Sec. State before me.”

Don:    “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent     of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” Vote for Don, bigot
            Don’s team: Hannity “I never claimed to be a journalist.” Fox news is not news.
            Pollster Conway: “I am white and he spoke to me.” But I’m paid to say that!
            My plan for a “deportation force” is “to be determined,” my handlers say. ??
            Trumps “pretended to be Swedish so we could sell homes to Jews.” Family historian
            I was against bringing Americans home to get well from Ebola. I want no spread!
            I will give other people’s money to the LA flood I know media is watching now.    
            People give to Trump Foundation to get access too—I give to Clinton too.
            I want black votes?  but I refused to go to NAACP convention. I was birther head.
            My advisor Bachmann: “white people suffered more under the Obama             administration than black people did during slavery.” She’s GREAT advisor!

            I don’t want to be president, just “listen to my meaning.” I just used $55,000 in campaign donations to buy copies of my book at full retail price. Boost my book ratings.

Mike:   It is the media’s fault for the drop in polls. Putin OK. Only 32% GOP trust media. 
           
Hill:    Colin Powell advised me to use a private email account, I told FBI. Powell ?
            Liberty and Greens may again create a better monster: (Nader gave us Bush II)
            I have 2-to-1 support from employees working for defense giants. Bigger guns! 

Tim:    Bigot is person who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or             politics and is intolerant of those who differ. EG: All ‘Mexicans are rapists.’             ‘Keep Muslims out of America.’ ‘You are all living in poverty’. Etc etc.

Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill                requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

MorganStanley caught charging its own employees $ millions in excess fees in 401k.
Wells Fargo caught charging students illegal fees and other things on loans
Arctic sea ice melting at a rate far faster than anyone thought. Constant floods, wildfires?
EpiPen raises price 600% so Sen Manchin kid, Heather, gets 671% pay hike. 1-payer?
Single-payer either Mylar or Govt—like fire, police, health is necessity not for profit.
First National Bank Omaha caught deceiving consumers into debt cancellation add-on
NJ Christie vetoes legislation just to allow smart guns to be in stores—NRA owns NJ

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own

When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police want gun control. They don’t know who to shoot. Shot a psych worker with his hands up while on ground. 
Police shot black homeowner who reported car stolen in front of house. They shoot first if black or deaf. Deaf man was fatally shot when he tried to explain in sign.

SCAMS
MorganStanley putting its employees in funds costing them $ millions in excess fees.
McMansions define Ugly in new way—Bad investment—home is never investment!
EpiPen raises price 600% and blames Obama—favorite excuse of all monopoly gougers.
July was the hottest month ever recorded and this year is likely to be the hottest year ever.


Ignoramus Award: US Olympians show how to lie after destroying restroom in Rio—                                            America great again? Lock Lochte in toilet till he cleans it!
                                    Speedo donates Lochte’s $50K to Save the Children

Sign of the times
Hollywood execs sent Mel Brooks a note about Blazing Saddles: “Can you reshoot Black Bart with a white actor?”

How our government wastes our money
Army made bad accounting entries worth $6.5 trillion for the year. That’s $300 a family.
Zika threat ignored by Congress just like AIDs. It cost us over $440 billion eventually!
            Plus all the babies will never have a chance for full life. Shame on congress.

Who owns your account now?
MetLife life and annuity move to a ‘spin’ off “Brighthouse,” Met’s choice to avoid regs.

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Don wants to reduce taxes on the rich to 15% while we pay 33%

Don’s new tax idea—let the rich pay 15% not 40% using LLCs
You need to open an LLC soon so you can push all your income from self-employment through it. Don has proposed to tax individuals’ income from partnerships, limited liability companies and other so-called “pass-through” business entities at a 15% rate. Currently, LLCs do not pay tax but pass the income to the owners. They pay at their rate up to 39.6%. This will help Don since he uses hundreds of LLCs to reduce taxes. All of his expenses go against revenue so he ends up paying ZERO, as he did in 1978-79. His 1978 income was negative $406,379. ZERO tax. The next year, it was negative $3.4 million. ZERO tax!
More than two-thirds of pass-through income flows to the top 1% of tax filers. Like Don they charge everything (hair stylist, wigs, sprays, etc) to the business. Don’s jets and choppers cost $500,000 for 3 months charged to his LLC businesses. The campaign paid for part of it. He made few deals this year so his tax bill should be NEGATIVE—ZERO taxes. We will probably have to pay him a tax refund. America’s Socialism for the Rich means they pay 15% and we pay 33%.

Best Robo-Advisor – Reach Your Goals automatically
The Ultimate Automatic Wealth Management account. Fidelity found that their client accounts that were most successful were those put on automatic—left alone—forgotten. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” Warren Buffett claims that his holding period is forever. He advocates compounding (allow earnings on earnings to grow exponentially): "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest." Robo-advisors work because money does NOT trade, rebalance, market time, buy high-sell low or sector rotate. It compounds exponentially.


Are our cars eating up our retirement nest eggs?
Edmunds.com found the average loan price for a new vehicle was $33,352. That makes the average payment $503 a month over 68 months! Since compound investing is NOT taught in our schools, we didn’t learn cars can cost us a $1 million retirement fund. How? Check it out:http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm. $500 X 12= $6,000 annual addition, 30 years, 10% interest rate, 12 times compounding. If you begin late—age 40 or 45—you can still accumulate $1 million. You’ll need it. Retirement may go on for 30 years after you stop working. A special IRS account lets you spend it all too.
Use your Tax Shelter for Tax-FREE income: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Shelter-Americans/dp/1500426520

How does muni bond interest (tax-FREE) increase my Medicare charge?
To keep the wealthy from getting another free ride, Municipal Bond income is included n your modified adjusted gross income. If your MAGI is below $85,000 (or $170,000 for couples filing jointly), you pay $121.80 each month for Part B. As your MAGI goes up, so does your payment, which tops out at $389.80 for individuals with MAGI of $214,000 (or $428,000 for couples filing jointly). Your MAGI is used to figure other tax breaks too. When your income goes up, so does the taxable portion of your Social Security benefits. Up to 85% of your SS benefits may be taxes by the Fed. Some states tax it too.
Your Tax-FREE account can lower all your taxes: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-No-Taxes-Retirement-legally/dp/1507527977

GOP to reinstate anti-black anti-minority voter laws
Gov McCrory wants to reinstate North Carolina’s voter ID law despite court finding it “passed with racially discriminatory intent.” Other states have faced similar court rulings over voter restrictions, as courts have blocked or weakened laws in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and North Dakota recently. The courts found that GOP laws reduced the number of early-voting days and changed registration procedures in ways meant to harm blacks. Trump recently told supporters to stop people who they see voting 10 times. “I’ve heard a lot of bad things.” Voter fraud has never been proven in any state election site in decades. GOP and Don are using this as tactic to reduce Dems. Scaring voters with his immigrants are rapist talk would not reduce terrorists since most are from USA. Don would probably fail the naturalization test since he does not read. The Gold Star father challenged Don to take the test with him. Don and wives might fail.

Time to install single-payer health care?
Aetna is the third major insurer to pull out of the money-losing ObamaCare. Perhaps America can’t afford to have for-profit health care. We like some of ObamaCare benefits like affordable, acceptance, comprehensive, free screening, and preventive care. Extending Medicare Medicaid would not require a new bureaucracy. Medicare Advantage works for over 12 million seniors using local providers. Private insurers will want higher profits and will continue to determine how much medical treatments I can receive. It’s the perfect conflict of interest: they decide my health care—less for me equals more for them. You must become an expert in health to buy the right policy now.

Why life insurance is NOT a safe legacy for heirs
Agents selling life insurance make the case that if you pay all this money during your lifetime, your heirs will get the benefit when you die. But insurers have a trick. When you die, even after you have had to pay more premiums for low interest rates, they don’t have to pay the death benefit. If your heir does not make a claim insurers don’t pay. Either you pay for a lawyer to remember to file the claim or you switch to the alternative to life insurance. The most well known insurers have kept $ Billions in premiums and benefits. Your heir may never get the death benefit. 60 Minutes exposes this legal ‘crime.’

Don’s Apology: “Sometimes in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues,     you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that." 
           
Forget I said all this:

Don:    “Second Amendment people, maybe there is” a way to stop Hill (with gun?).
            Don’s manager paid by Ukrainian pol slush fund: helps Putin invaders?
            Ivanka supports working women although her business does not.
            I screen out individuals who don't "share our values and respect our people." 
            Vote for me so I won’t feel bad: "Can you imagine how badly I'll feel if I spend       all of that money, all of this energy, all of this time and lost?" I, I, I ?
            Extremist Breitbart’salternate reality is created for him on a daily basis”

Mike:    Sure, I will show my tax return. Why not?
           
Hill:    Don’s advisor said I “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”
            I think Don just asked the gun nuts to kill me. Some will try. Is this his exit?
            This election is like 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0R4k1tVMs
            Joe says Don considering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VzZQGWOqA
             In 2006 I promised 200,000 jobs to upstate NY. It’s hard to create new jobs.
            Bill will shut down his money machine if I am pres—he will find other deals.

Tim:    "I trust Hillary Clinton with our son's life."

Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

Your life insurance benefit may NOT be paid: all major insurers keep $ Billions
John Place Global Transition Solutions PA caught overcharging $13 mil commissions.
Michael Oppenheim Chase stole $20 million from clients then lost it trading.
Wear a strobe! Uber driverless cars fetched with a button. Pittsburgh pedestrians beware!
Amtrak Police Chief Polly Hanson caught giving $1 mill contract to boyfriend Thomas
Russia contributing to Trump PACs via Manafort slush fund. Putin hacking voting stats?
Sandy Winick, Vergara or Cheer caught "penny stock fraud” boiler room of $140 million.

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own

When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police want gun control. They don’t know who to shoot. Shot a psych worker with his hands up while on ground. 

SCAMS
Very religious TX woman was convicted of keeping two Mexican slaves for 14 years
Global warming is understood by most school children but not oil rich adults.
Federal inmates making defective combat helmets for the U.S. military—manager?

Ignoramus Award: SS admin required seniors to obtain a smart phone to receive text message in order to access their SS account. Complaining changed SS procedures back.


How our government wastes our money



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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Don can't release taxes--paying zero hurts image

Don can’t release his tax returns since it would hurt his image
Don says he is audited every year. “I have friends that are very rich and never get audited. I’m audited every year. Maybe that’s because of politics, who knows.” He is audited every year because he has questionable deductions that zero out his tax bill. His biographer, David Cay Johnston shows his habit since he began putting his name on buildings in Atlantic City. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Donald-Trump-David-Johnston/dp/1612196322 He is proud of paying as little as he can. “I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.” That could be ZERO and could explain why he refuses to come clean with his voters. “It’s none of your business.” Yet every president has NOT hid their financials in case there is a conflict. We can only assume there is a conflict and Don is just as surprised as the world that he is the nominee and must disclose. We are passed the convention, so no one will bother him now. He is the GOP winner already.
You can avoid taxes using a legal tax shelter:  https://www.amazon.com/Tax-FREE-Wealth-How-use-laws-free/dp/1475089236

Advisors are NOT being paid to help you anymore
Serving clients "used to be about prestige, now it's about margins," said Jane Swan, Sheffield Haworth. Clients with less than $750,000 are now being sent to call center service. Advisors are using the new fiduciary rule as the excuse to jettison the un-rich. Firms have increased the number of clients with over $10 million to invest by 88 percent since 2009. Merrill stopped paying brokers on accounts with less than $250,000. Call center service is so profitable, some with margins over 45%, some firms are taking a second look at what discounters are doing. RoboAdvisors are happy to take mass market investors. Their customers see they can get Wall Street’s Secret Sauce for less. 

Why life insurance is NOT an investment
Agents selling life insurance can’t make money selling term (if you die your heirs get the benefit) so they sell it as an investment. But when interest rates tank and are underwater for long periods like now, the investment portion can’t support the death benefit. Either you pay more to keep the CEO in caviar or you quit and he keeps the premiums and benefits. Same for long term care. Insurance is for premature death; it isn’t a legacy.


Why are young investors using Roth IRAs?
At the end of 2014, 31 percent of Roth investors were younger than 40, compared with 15 percent of traditional IRA investors.  About 25% of Roth IRA investors were 60 or older, compared with 39% of traditional IRA investors. Roth IRAs are newer than IRAs. Older investors started their IRA accounts before 1997. Younger investors are more likely to need the tax-FREE benefit later rather than earlier in their careers. With a tax deductible IRA contribution of $5,500, they save $1375 on taxes (25% tax bracket). But if they compound the earnings on that $5,500 over 30 years, they save over $25,000 on taxes. They can spend the full $110,000 accumulation. Fewer firms are matching their 401k contributions and who knows about the SS fund by 2040. In 30 years, they may need every penny of their nest egg.
They have their own IRS-OK tax shelter: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Shelter-Americans/dp/1500426520

GOP religion
Everyone is reaching for their Constitution after Khan offered his to Don at the Dem convention. However, the version Clive Bundy promotes is not the same one. Some constitutional scholars say that a number of quotations in the NCCS version are either deliberate alterations or taken out of context. The NCCS changes stress that the U.S. is a Christian nation not intended to be ruled by a single government. For some, the Federal structure has no legal standing and America is a Christian nation. However, most Americans pay taxes because Congress passed laws on the basis that Federal supersedes state law. They think America has no state religion. Read the official version: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-110hdoc50/pdf/CDOC-110hdoc50.pdf Get copy:
Library of Congress. http://library-of-congress-shop.myshopify.com/products/three-documents-of-freedom-1 There is no word “Christian” in it. Print the FREE one here: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html There are many interpretations of what it says so everyone gets to claim they are “strict constructionists” and “originalists.” It is clear that this country was founded on religious freedom but not the kind GOP religionists are trying to make law. Mr Kahn’s point is that we can’t exclude someone based on religion or sex or color. Jefferson was clear to keep religion out.
Don and the GOP are wrong—we don’t discriminate against people we don’t agree with.
           
Why are Christians voting for Don? Does the long record of Don’s business practices align even remotely with the ideals laid down by Jesus? How would Jesus respond to this record? Is it possible to imagine Trump repenting of anything? “Beware false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
By their fruit you will recognize them.” 

Don does not really want the responsibility of president—he just loves the spotlight.
Trump’s image is basically unchanged from a month ago. He’s viewed favorably by 36 percent and unfavorably by 61 percent. Still the election could be close since only the ardent vote.

Is the election rigged?
We have not had the election yet so Don is remembering all the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression we have had in the last 8 years. GOP states have made laws cutting the voting days and times and places and voter cards. 90-year-olds don’t have drivers license anymore since can’t drive. They have claimed mass voter fraud when no state has proved it. GOP states have redrawn the voting districts so that all the minorities are in one district and the other 15 are GOP strongholds. They have one rep in DC not 7 as per population. This is why the House is now full of GOP reps who 1. shut down gov 2. end all regulatory agencies, 3. allow AR killing machines for ISIS to buy. 4. vote 50 times for repeal our health access without replacement. 5. give more subsidies to big air, oil, gas, agribusiness, etc. 6. allow insider trading by Congress people. 7. bailout bad banks  


Don:    Former CIA chief Morell calls me Putin’s “unwitting agent.” “Putin likes me”
            I never apologize: "…when you apologize, they use it … against [you].”
I know Obama founded ISIS because I read it on the internet. BushII invaded!

Mike:   Of course Don is not manipulated by Putin. Don loves praise from ANYONE.  
           
Hill:    This election is like 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0R4k1tVMs
            Joe says Don’s thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VzZQGWOqA
            Don called me “founder of ISIS” not devilBush II has that title!
            FBI said some emails were not clear on marking Secret—I did not intend crime.
            FBI own agent gave China secrets and knew it. That is crime.

Tim:    "I trust Hillary Clinton with our son's life." Oh my

Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

Merrill Robertson Jr. Cavalier Union caught defrauding elderly, coaches, promised 20%.
Ray Lucia barred by SEC: giving false information on inflation REITs in “Buckets”
Russell K. Jalbert, Jacob Keith Cooper, Terence Marable, Beverly Bailey lose CFP cert.
Patrick Evan Churchville ClearPath caught making Ponzi to buy RI mansion.

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own

When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police want gun control. They don’t know who to shoot. Shot a psych worker with his hands up while on ground. 


SCAMS
Cold war toxins come back to kill us from global warming—great movie but TRUE?


“We're paying them for a service. We have every right to question their behavior.” ???


How our government wastes our money


Who owns your account now?
Robo Advisors are being bought by the firms--Look before you leap.
Our next book: Best Robo-Advisor: Ultimate Automatic Wealth Management  

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Friday, August 5, 2016

We are paying Don's tax bills

We are paying the taxes that Don is avoiding
“I have friends that are very rich and never get audited. I’m audited every year. Maybe that’s because of politics, who knows.” He is audited every year because he has questionable deductions. The last taxes we saw, in 1984, showed he was a sole proprietor Sch C,  ‘consultant’ with NO income and $619,227 in expenses. ?? That’s very unusual. Just as he had no taxes paid in 1978 on $406,379 income and no taxes in 1979 on $3,443,560 income. His charitable deductions are suspect too. Every American would be audited under those circumstances. It is not political. Don might have needed to make his taxes look “normal” after he decided to run for Pres and Chief of the IRS. Real estate moguls often use the huge depreciation allowance of real estate accounting to defer taxes on the gain of their investments. Some rental RE owners show only deductions during the useful life of their properties.

What if your brokerage firm says ‘goodbye’?
Brokerage firms want more money, even though their operating margins are over 45%. They're telling their salespeople to bring in more multi-millionaires. No more small accounts. The ‘personal’ touch you used to get for $250,000 wasn’t much so now you will need to give them all your assets to get attention. $750,000 is the minimum now so the firm can take at least $15,000 a year. Actually, this is a good thing for you. You were on your way to giving up 63% of your total potential nest egg because fees compound. Brokers need more income because the smart money is moving to low-fee providers like Vanguard. Your brokerage firm’s CEO just can’t make it on 2% of $250,000 customers. Brokers are no longer paid for your business anyway.


Why is your employer cutting your 401k match?
Cost! First they cut company-paid pensions. Then they cut pensions. Now they cut matching for your 401k contributions. After years of trying to get employees to put in more toward retirement, your employer may be cutting back. You may even lose matching contributions. They don’t want to help you with retirement. We are on our own. If they don’t match, you can make your own pension and make it FREE of income taxes forever. Instead of paying tax when you retire, you can spend all your earnings. This may add 30% to your nest egg since you avoid federal and state income tax as well as tax on your Social Security benefits.  
You may be ahead by using your own tax shelter: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Shelter-Americans/dp/1500426520

And why your employer is cutting your health insurance
Cost! The percentage of employers with fewer than 100 workers that offer healthcare benefits to their employees has declined an average of 24%, reaching as high as 36% for companies with fewer than 10 employees. Meanwhile, health insurance offer rates among larger employers have been holding steady. Even though the ACA exempts employers with fewer than 50 employees from providing healthcare benefits, it created health exchanges for those employers to help their employees obtain healthcare. But exchanges, says EBRI study author Paul Fronstin, simply “haven’t taken off. Just because you create something doesn’t mean [employees] will use it.”

This is why you never got your check to fix Sandy damage
New York authorities charged a Long Island engineering firm and one of its former executives with forging damage reports for homes swamped by Hurricane Sandy, altering the documents in such a way that owners’ flood insurance claims were denied.
Matthew Pappalardo and his former employer GEB HiRise Engineering PC were named in a 50-count indictment accusing Pappalardo of directing his staff to remove descriptions of flood damage from least 25 reports that had been prepared by subcontractors who visited the properties. Lawyers say it was a widespread practice intended to benefit the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance program and the private insurers that administered its policies following a storm that caused more than $75 billion in damage. FEMA, $24 billion in debt after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and other storms, pressured insurers to hold the line on Sandy payments.

Wealthy political donors support America’s Socialism for the Rich
$44 billionaire warns fellow billionaires that we will likely degenerate into socialism or corporatism, as two-tiered societies typically do,” Charles Koch told attendees. Koch’s oil and gas firm worries he will loose the lucrative government subsidies he receives if Dems win elections. Other attendees wish to receive corporate welfare but do not wish to pay their fair share in taxes. Koch, headquartered in KS, has recently had the state eliminate the income tax for all businesses even though it expands operations in other states. Most large corporations obtain subsidies or tax breaks that are never discussed by their Washington ‘reps’. Many like Boeing receive huge state benefits also. Koch told his rich buddies that society must “look” like it is NOT rigged; people will get desperate.

If you need immediate income for life
There are two common ways to receive monthly income for life: mutual fund vs annuity. Annuity is guaranteed for life or life plus certain number of years. A male gets $603 per month for life in return for $100,000 at age 65. If you are in good health, you could have $238,680 by age 95 but you break even if you die in 12 years. You can take $500 and heirs can get something if you pass in under 20 years. Of course, $603 will be worth $300 in 20 years. Mutual Fund is tricky. You can take $600 a month from the principal and receive increases for inflation. You have a 54% probability that your money will carry you for 20 years. The annuity wins because ½ the people die before they get to use all of their deposit which is invested in bonds 50%, stocks 40%, cash 10%.


GOP’s no-tax experiment in KS was just defeated
Voters in KS have removed 11 very conservative reps who helped gov Brownback pass a law eliminating the income tax on Koch bros and other wealthy people. The voting occurred against the backdrop not only of the state's fiscal woes but ongoing legal and political disputes over funding for public schools. The state Supreme Court could rule by the end of the year on whether the Legislature is shorting schools on their state aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since the GOP-dominated Legislature slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback's urging to stimulate the economy. Koch and other businesses have NOT increased jobs and have taken their tax refunds OUT of the state. They buy business in other states and countries. No one wants to run a business where the schools fail.


Poor now allowed to save for emergency
Some states allow new ABLE account, which could help millions of disabled adults who worry about losing food stamps, cash benefits, or life-sustaining health insurance if they accumulate more than a couple thousand dollars. Three of the states let residents of any other state open an account. ABLE accounts are tax-free if they go toward disability-related expenses, a broad category that includes housing, education, health care, and basic needs. If you need Medicaid to live, you can’t keep money you earn and you can’t have income from a spouse. Florida’s program will be restricted to residents, the other three states – Ohio, Tennessee, and Nebraska – are open to people who don't live there. ABLE accounts may be available online. Family can give $14,000 a year so disabled can live more independently and don’t need a trust when parents die.

Which candidate is the better liar? Presidents must lie to keep power.
It is good to know that both parties act as juvenile petty-power cliques.
Big oil donors spending $ millions to keep GOP subsidies coming from Washington.


Can a bully be treated? Mental health is a factor in 2016
People who bully others may also benefit from therapy, though they may be reluctant to acknowledge their bullying behavior openly. In therapy, bullies may begin to understand the impact their hurtful behavior has on others, explore reasons for why they bully, learn new skills for communicating positively with others, and address personal experiences that may have contributed to their bullying behavior. Often bullies have unresolved personal wounds that contribute to their bullying behavior, and addressing these emotional wounds or identity and social issues with a qualified therapist can be an integral step towards stopping bullying behavior. The ultimate solution is to reverse the large-scale abandonment of our youth to the peer culture and, in every way we can, to rebuild children’s lost relationships with parents, teachers and the other adults. Bullies have trouble focusing on anything but their own self-worth. A 70-year-old man-child.

Don does not really want the responsibility of president—he just loves the spotlight.

Don: He "has said nice things about me". This is the standard by which I judge people.
            I get secrets briefing despite one official saying: “He’s been so uninterested in the truth    and so reckless with it when he sees it, I would refuse.” “Trump admires Putin.”             
            “I “knew” Putin 3 years ago but today I don’t “know” him” media ‘misunderstood’
            “She's the devil." "I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest".
            Gold Star father is a “terrorist sympathizer” who is angry I will bar “Islamic terrorists.”
            VFW says “ridicule a Gold Star Mother is out-of-bounds.” GOP is silent.
            “I always wanted Purple Heart” but never to earn it so I took a real hero’s Heart.
            “So why can’t I use nuclear weapons, exactly?” Scary but ISIS is crazy too!
               You can get the baby out of here” after telling mom to stay at rally.
            Bloomberg doesn’t know my business dealings are a ‘con’ or does he.
            Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City, citing labor strife, will close—Apropos!
            Harvard thinks I am a “threat to the survival of the Republic.” Poison to country.

Mike:  Roe v Wade (abortion legal) will be overturned after Donald is elected.
            I lied when I said Obama stimulus wouldn’t help my voters. I took $6.3 million.


Hill:    Campaign theme: Would you rather be ruled by Trump?
             “FBI Director James Comey said I was 'truthful' on my emails” BS Why lie?
             Now Don wants to double what I would spend on infrastructure: GOP says no!
            California County GOP Tweets Picture of Executioner `Ready for Hillary`

Tim:    Speaking Spanish is not going to win voters to Hill. She needs vision statement.

Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

.auto safety regulators are extending oversight of Fiat Chrysler for an additional year.
.Matthew Pappalardo GEB HiRise Engineering caught altering Sandy damage reports.
.Hank Werner Legend Securities caught stealing $184,000 from elderly blind woman.
.Ireland sends 3 bankers to prison for recession. Iceland sent 5. US sent 0, UK sent 0.
.FBI did not tell DNC it was target of Russian government-backed cyber attack.
.BasisPeak watch recalled – it burns you but not when you want it to.
.Ford recalls 840,000 – doors open while movingcheap spring brakes like on GM cars 
We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own

When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police want gun control. They don’t know who to shoot. Shot a psych worker with his hands up while on ground. 


SCAMS
Wealthy Dem donors have SS # hacked by Russia with Don’s blessing.
Deutsche Bank reviewed Don’s financials when he wanted a loan. He claimed net worth of $3.5 billion. The bank concluded Trump’s net worth was $788 million. Illusionist?
U.S. Attorney’s office has ordered sealed the autopsy report of victim Alton Sterling
Zimmerman punched as he was bragging to diners about shooting the 17-year-old.

Ignoramus Award: Police shoot man in home: Oops wrong address Shoot first ask later!

How our government wastes our money
Zika now in Miami mosquito bites because Congress would not give funds for control.
F-35 $400 billion program suffers from a series of problems yet Air Force says “ready” 
Who investigates the investigators? FBI veteran giving secrets to China – It’s Hill’s fault!

Who owns your account now?
MetLife insurance and annuities assigned to CSC for servicing
EverBank to TIAA

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