In the long run we are all dead
but our children will be left to pick up the tab.

Housing Bubble’s Pop Could Doom Boomers

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admin @ 11:20 pm

We already know that most of the Boomers have another thing coming if they expect us to actually slave away for the rest of our lives in order to pay for their mistakes.

But now it gets worse for these over-spenders. Most of the boomers haven’t saved nearly enough to self-fund their lavish lifestyles in the retirement years. In fact, most boomers drank the kool-aid of the last few years and expected home prices to continue inflating forever; thus, retiring boomers would just sell their house in order to pay for an early retirement on the golf course.

Unfortunately, the price of homes is crashing with no end in site. Each percentage down equates to a less luxurious retirement for these soon-to-be-retirees.

An article from The Street.com goes into more detail…

Bond Prices and Out of Control Spending

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admin @ 10:57 pm

For those of you not to familiar with the financial world of bonds, here is an interesting blog from our favorite financial blogger, Karl Denninger.

Why should this concern you? Bond prices set the rates on your house mortage (along with its value), car payments, student loans, earned interest in your bank account, and your future tax liabilities – this is because a huge percentage of your taxes go to pay off government over-spending (a.k.a. the National Debt).

Essentially, the more fiscally irresponsible Congress is now, the more you can expect to pay in taxes!

Want health care, young person? Join the Army.

Filed under: Entitlements, Labor Market, Young Workers
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admin @ 10:37 pm

An interesting article sourcing a NYT article on how improving healthcare will probably diminish the US military. In a nutshell: if you’re young and want decent health insurance (forgetting for a moment that you’re already funding millions of retirees’ health benefits), you may have to join the armed services. God Bless America!

A Day of Infamy as the First Boomer Retires

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admin @ 10:32 pm

October 15, 2007 will go down in history as a special day for young workers in the US and future generations of taxpayers. It was the day the first baby boomer retired.

There was plenty of small articles on most MSM outlets, though few had the courage to point out what this really means for current and future taxpayers. A standard Google search using keywords first baby boomer retires will list out the various articles.

Unconscionablie Debt

Alison Fraser, a federal spending analyst at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the status of Social Security and Medicare in advance of the trustees for the two programs releasing annual reports on Monday. The bottom line, Fraser said, is that the programs are creating an unconscionable debt for future generations of America.

Storms on the Horizon – Unfunded Liabilities Unfunded Liabilites: $99,200,000,000,000

Richard W. Fisher, current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, speaks on the current liabilities facing future generations with regards to entitlement benefits. He does not waste time in laying out the point:

I want to speak to you tonight about an economic problem that we must soon confront or else risk losing our primacy as the world

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