To vent a bit...
Emotional stresses are horrible right now. I read yesterday SSGA's President and CEO's Open Letter to Congress.
Put simply, he wants laws passed to automatically enroll us into Defined Contributions programs whenever we work. Wherever. And all aggregated data.
Because we are children and cannot be trusted with our own money and our own lives.
And keep in mind there have already been government defaults (Cypress, Greece) and there's talk of cashless society and negative interest rates.
Meantime, who thinks they will leave those funds alone? I mean, they left Social Security alone... (Another defined Contribution, I'd point out.)
Note that we're going to have to buy in to the investment schemes, and then the fund managers (SSGA, Wells Fargo, et al) will "manage" our funds for us... We'll be taxed on it, I'm certain, and possibly even fined for having it (I.E., negative interest rates, paying the bank to hold your investments & savings, and it'll be vulnerable to confiscation - I was reading about that on an auto blog yesterday, cops are now able to use scanners to debit your cards, your accounts, directly, as "evidence of a crime" under asset forfeiture.)
I wonder, too, if there hasn't been a Thalidomide-type event, inducing TG mind/body split, and no one has found it yet. (DES is separate, DiEthylStilbesterol was an artificial estrogen given to women to prevent morning sickness, and it DID induce transgender phenotypes in males, google "DES Sons.")
Or are we just more visible?
And why are so many people (on BOTH sides of the political coin) opposing actual FREEDOM? With Freedom, we can do what we want, as long as it doesn't harm others. With the Right and Left flase-dichotomy/Police State/Feed Lot Control scheme, we're free to obey the rules. No one seems to care, it's all about "our team" (thus, our brand of tyranny) winning.
I'm just disgusted, it's not even hidden, it's BRAZEN PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, and the public licks the hand that beats them...
-Dianna