Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money - Part 6

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster Interview - Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit. ...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money - Part 5

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster Interview - Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit. ...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money - Part 4

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster Interview - Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit. ...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money - Part 3

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster Inteview - Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit. ...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money - Part 2

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster Interview - Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit....

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Reid Rosenthal - Land: For Love and Money

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Reid's position is that you need to be investing in land -- even if only a small section -- for two reasons, for love and money. Reid writes in his book Land: For Love and Money and accompanying workbook Green for Green that when there is financial instability the most profitable goods are tangible assets (and what is more tangible than the land itself?) and when there is personal insecurity the openness and beauty of land is the perfect cleanser of your spirit. ...

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Our Unfunded Liabilities - What If the United States Was A Man Named Joe?

Joe's PromisesA story about Joe, the man who makes many promises.There is a man named Joe (J). Joe is a rather spectacular person, or at least he appears to be.J is well respected and looked up to as a leader and role-model of success, personal power, and financial prowess. Joe has developed such a cache of personal power, that he shares his power by taking care of others in their time of need. J provides strength of character, although the most important way he takes care of others - is financially.J has a few financial support programs, referred to collectively as Joe's Promises (JPs). Anyone who enrolls in Joe's programs is...

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What If You Personally Had the Unfunded Liabilities?

Bringing the Monster HomeThe unfunded liabilities of the US government are so huge and so incomprehensible, it can be extremely difficult to put this monster into proper perspective.How can you comprehend over $100 trillion? How can you apply the government's financial problems to your own financial situation? How can you imagine the effect of owing money to tens of millions of people - money you do not have set aside for such a purpose?It's time for us to put these unfunded liabilities into perspective.Putting it into perspective and bringing the monster down to earth.Looking at the massive numbers and discussing the problem...

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What Exactly Are Medicare and Medicaid?

Definition of MedicareMedicare is another of the entitlement programs funded by tax revenues and allocated by the government. Although, whereas the Social Security program provides general financial support, Medicare provides financial support specifically for medical expenses rather than general living expenses.Medicare insurance consists of money accumulated through taxation and provided by the government to Medicare recipients who are enrolled in the program because they are considered to have higher than average medical expenses. Those eligible for Medicare include people with lifelong physical disability and people over...

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What Exactly Are The Unfunded Liabilities?

Definition of Unfunded LiabilitiesOkay, we see the problem, we hear the horror, we sense the danger, and we smell the monster. One question remains - what are unfunded liabilities?An unfunded liability is a liability or debt that is not covered by an asset (such as income or collateral) of equal or greater value. The debts or liabilities in this case consist of the promises of financial support that the US government is making for...

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Big Beyond Comprehension - Unfunded Liabilities

How big is this monster?Just How Much Do the Unfunded Liabilities Amount To?As we know, the unfunded liabilities monster is composed of three main components. Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid.There are various calculations of the size of each component, with the total size of the Monster ranging from $22 tr to $118 tr (when including Medicaid).We are now going to present the various calculations.Government Accountability Office (GAO) - $30 tr plus MedicaidBoard of Trustees of Social Security and Medicare - $18 tr plus MedicaidNational Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) - $107 tr plus MedicaidUSDebtClock.org - $114 tr plus MedicaidRichard...

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The Unfunded Liabilities Are Doing What to My Money!?

I Have Confusion, Fear, and PainThe unfunded liabilities have been a source of confusion, fear, and pain for Americans. Many are not sure what they are. Many are frightened by what they could mean. Many are pained by how they shame our nation.Let's make this understandable. Simply said, the unfunded liabilities are the entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; furthermore, the government is promising to pay...

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The Dreaded Origins of the Unfunded Liabilities and Social Security

Origin of Unfunded LiabilitiesWhat is the nature of the unfunded liabilities monster? What is its history? Well we know that the Monster began growing in the 1940s, at the beginning of the baby boom.At this time the population in the United States began exploding and the progression towards making enormous promises to enormous numbers of people that simple could not be kept. At this time, and particularly four decades later in the...

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Unless You Need A Good Thief, the US Government Is Unreliable

Can I rely on the government for my financial security?Here is a fiscal response, not a political response.Fiscally, that is financially and mathematically, the answer to this question appears to be a bold and glaring 'no'.Why?We need only to look at the government's fiscal report card to determine its reliability as a source of my financial security. Over the past thirty years the United States government has been engaging in gross over-consumption, to the point of consuming itself - taking you and me with it. Suffice to say, the US government is strongly testing its ability to take care of itself, let alone actually being able...

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Birth of the Disease - The Story of Medicare and Medicaid

Questions About the Unfunded LiabilitiesThe unfunded liabilities. What is their history? Where on Earth did they crawl from? We know that like a creature spawned from an alien ship crash, the ground in America shook during the twenty straight years of baby booming - and this is when the monster started coming out - attracted by the smell of food.During the baby boom the population in the United States began to pop. Seeing the spike in Americans, the government decided to ramp up their promises of financial support for all of these people. The result was an enormous ticking time bomb - the unfunded liabilities monster.From...

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Unfunded Liabilities Made Easy

What Is the Unfunded Liabilities Monster?The unfunded liabilities monster is the sum total of financial promises the United States government is promising to keep, although it has basically none of the money it is promising to pay.The unfunded liabilities monster is composed of various social welfare and social insurance programs, with the largest and most well-known being the big three - Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These programs are holding promises to provide financial support to the elderly, physical disabled, and low-income earning Americans using taxation of the American people.What is the problem? Why is...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Jim Bacon - Boomergeddon - Part 4

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Jim Bacon - Boomergeddon - Part 3

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Jim Bacon - Boomergeddon - Part 2

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Interview - Jim Bacon - Boomergeddon

Go to http://usUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster interview with Jim Bacon. Jim is the author of Boomergeddon: How Runaway Deficits and the Age Wave Will Bankrupt the Federal Government and Devastate Retirement for Baby Boomers Unless We Act Now...

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Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Prepare Yourself

Go to http://USUnfundedLiabilities.wordpress.com Unfunded Liabilities Monster - Know the Monster. Prepare yourself. Protect your income. Go through this tour of the Unfunded Liabilities Monster Blog (wordpress)...

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Hey, I'm Jelani

Hey, My name is Jelani. I am 22 and I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I am an economics enthusiast, with a particular focus in the debt crisis of the United States. My business is personal income protection, hence my username is 'incomepa' (Income Protection Atlanta). My teammates and I represent Aflac - you know, with the duck. Connect with me on LinkedIn! - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jelani-asar/2a/8a0/577 LinkedIn Group - National Inflation...

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