6/15/10
ALTERNATIVE RETIREMENT TO A 401(k) OR AN IRA ACCOUNT
As we finish up this segment of the Obama strategy to capture our assets, to pay the Federal Government’s bills a couple of things you might want to keep in mind. If you own a Pension Plan, Profit Sharing Plan, 401(k), 403(b) or an IRA or for that matter any other Qualified Program continue to pay attention to this BLOG, consider the internet as an additional source of information going forward. However, with the IRA, you can consider a Roth which by the way has some of the characteristics of a Private Pension Plan that I can design and put together for anybody to help with their safety of principal and accumulated assets inside the Plan.
Another defensive step to consider is converting a traditional IRA to a Roth.
A Roth gives you the flexibility to make withdrawals of principal without incurring penalties. As such, Roth IRA contributions could serve as something of a lifeline in the event that the government starts stripping away your options for investing within IRAs or changes the rules on retirement distributions (by mandating the purchase of annuities backed by Treasury securities, for example, something the Obama Administrations is for now just “encouraging”).
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If at any point it appears that major new attacks on private retirement accounts are imminent. I won’t hesitate to recommend pulling money out of IRAs and 401(k)s and into safety if and when we believe the political threat environment has become too dangerous for having retirement assets in politically exposed “qualified accounts.”
For many of you whom I have designed a Private Pension Plan and either you yourself or your spouse have a Qualified Plan do nothing, continue to contribute, pay attention and if sanity re-enters the Federal Government and their ability to look out for our interest does in fact happen and President Obama’s insanity does not prevail then we go along as we are now with both a Private Pension Plan which can be the foundation and a Qualified Plans if they give us an additional amount dollars at retirement.
Finally, this initially covers the points that need to be made to allow everyone to know what could happen. In future months, there will be more about this possible Pension takeover as well as some additional ideas and solutions that will help each and everyone of you make better choices, smarter choices and save your money from the treachery that could happen if the left-wing of the Democratic Party gets its way.

