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Teacher pensions: The math adds up to a crisis!
It's just too ironic that our leaders and elites cannot run a country economic system with a sound policy even with teachers pensions!
I blame it on The NWO and free trade and Fiat Keynesian currency to forge a new money supply for International trade.
With the currency wars coming it soon will be a disaster for our illustrious leaders to deal with the crisis so to work us into a world economic slavery system for all mankind to work under.
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/10188406-teacher-pensions-the-math-adds-up-to-a-crisis/
Teacher pension plans across the country are staggering from a half-trillion dollars in debt. Put in perspective, that's more than $10,000 worth of debt for every student in the nation's primary and secondary schools.
https://followingworldchange.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/global-currency-reset-new-world-or-new-world-order/comment-page-1/
The world economic crisis shows the `inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system,' Gov Zhou Xiaochuan said in an essay released Monday by the bank. He recommended creating a currency made up of a basket of global currencies and controlled by the IMF and said it would help `to achieve the objective of safeguarding global economic and financial stability.'"
I blame it on The NWO and free trade and Fiat Keynesian currency to forge a new money supply for International trade.
With the currency wars coming it soon will be a disaster for our illustrious leaders to deal with the crisis so to work us into a world economic slavery system for all mankind to work under.
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/10188406-teacher-pensions-the-math-adds-up-to-a-crisis/
Teacher pension plans across the country are staggering from a half-trillion dollars in debt. Put in perspective, that's more than $10,000 worth of debt for every student in the nation's primary and secondary schools.
https://followingworldchange.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/global-currency-reset-new-world-or-new-world-order/comment-page-1/
The world economic crisis shows the `inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system,' Gov Zhou Xiaochuan said in an essay released Monday by the bank. He recommended creating a currency made up of a basket of global currencies and controlled by the IMF and said it would help `to achieve the objective of safeguarding global economic and financial stability.'"
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The real problems with pension or defined benefits is they were put in place decades ago without thinking that the economy might change and they might not be able to pay for them later.
So still combining real issues with conspiracy theories.
The real problems with pension or defined benefits is they were put in place decades ago without thinking that the economy might change and they might not be able to pay for them later.
Yeah you mean the Glass-Steagall act was still in force to prevent the casino gambling that forced the 2008 bailout of big banks! Plus the
serf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall:_Aftermath_of_repeal#Commentator_response_to_Section_20_and_32_repeal
Martin Mayer argued there were "three reasonable arguments" for tying Glass-Steagall repeal to the financial crisis: (1) it invited banks to enter risks they did not understand; (2) it created "network integration" that increased contagion; and (3) it joined the incompatible businesses of commercial and investment banking. Mayer, however, then described banking developments in the 1970s and 1980s that had already established these conditions before the GLBA repealed Sections 20 and 32.[60] Mayer's 1974 book The Bankers detailed the "revolution in banking" that followed Citibank establishing a liquid secondary market in "negotiable certificates of deposit" in 1961. This new "liability management" permitted banks to fund their activities through the "capital markets," like nonbank lenders in the "shadow banking market," rather than through the traditional regulated bank deposit market envisioned by the 1933 Banking Act.[61] In 1973 Sherman J. Maisel wrote of his time on the Federal Reserve Board and described how "[t]he banking system today is far different from what it was even in 1960" as "formerly little used instruments" were used in the "money markets" and "turned out to be extremely volatile.
So still combining real issues with conspiracy theories.
The real problems with pension or defined benefits is they were put in place decades ago without thinking that the economy might change and they might not be able to pay for them later.
No, the real problem is that the government dips into these retirement programs and uses the money for every thing but what it was intended to be used for!
quote:Originally posted by nards444
So still combining real issues with conspiracy theories.
The real problems with pension or defined benefits is they were put in place decades ago without thinking that the economy might change and they might not be able to pay for them later.
No, the real problem is that the government dips into these retirement programs and uses the money for every thing but what it was intended to be used for!
thats true too. But a lot of this defined pension stuff was not thought out and worked back then but doesnt work now.
Let's say that over those 35 years he had an average salary of $30,000. He started at 10k, finished at 60k. That's 3k per year or pretty close to 100k overall that he would have put into the system.
The average CD rate over that time was about 8 percent. Compounded annually that would give him just under 700k available in retirement funds. This is assuming that sort of investment on the part of STRS.
His deal was he'd get 66 percent of the average salary of his final 5 years at work, or in his case, about $35k/yr in pension. That would be enough to last 20 years, until he was 82; but considering that the money left continues to earn interest, it should in theory last him the rest of his life, even if he lives to 100.
The system, as designed, works fine; it isn't that you the taxpayer are supposed to pay for the retirement, each teacher saves for the retirement over the course of his career.
The PROBLEM is that the government entities running the fund have grossly mismanaged the money and other agencies have dipped into it, leaving it empty. In other words, if the retirement fund is essentially a big savings account for each teacher, that he payed into with his own money, the government stole it. Simple as that.
So my dad was a teacher. Retired now. He paid into Ohio State Teachers Retirement system for all 35 years. I don't know how much of each paycheck went into it, but it was substantial, say 10%.
Let's say that over those 35 years he had an average salary of $30,000. He started at 10k, finished at 60k. That's 3k per year or pretty close to 100k overall that he would have put into the system.
The average CD rate over that time was about 8 percent. Compounded annually that would give him just under 700k available in retirement funds. This is assuming that sort of investment on the part of STRS.
His deal was he'd get 66 percent of the average salary of his final 5 years at work, or in his case, about $35k/yr in pension. That would be enough to last 20 years, until he was 82; but considering that the money left continues to earn interest, it should in theory last him the rest of his life, even if he lives to 100.
The system, as designed, works fine; it isn't that you the taxpayer are supposed to pay for the retirement, each teacher saves for the retirement over the course of his career.
The PROBLEM is that the government entities running the fund have grossly mismanaged the money and other agencies have dipped into it, leaving it empty. In other words, if the retirement fund is essentially a big savings account for each teacher, that he payed into with his own money, the government stole it. Simple as that.
Thats true as well and good points. But I think we might be missing the fact that for one companies may not have figured in life expectancies which have gone up over 10 years in the last 30 years. You have 1000 employees at say 20 grand per yer times an extra 10 years it adds up, and people arent necessarily retiring 10 years later either.
Lastly you have make promises as in 50% pension or back to a dollar figure of 20 grand per yer, you have to provide that regardless if the market produced good earnings or not. That is why companies and goverment are now lowering their defined BallPark Frankons and turining to contribution plans, where they say hey, here is less of a pension but we will contribute to your 401k. Less risk for the company more for the employee.
Really its hard to, today say we will give you 20 grand a year after you retire until you die. Theres a lot that can happen in 30 years until that person retires
quote:Originally posted by nards444
So still combining real issues with conspiracy theories.
The real problems with pension or defined benefits is they were put in place decades ago without thinking that the economy might change and they might not be able to pay for them later.
No, the real problem is that the government dips into these retirement programs and uses the money for every thing but what it was intended to be used for!
Yep.
The "General Funds" syndrome. General funds tend to gravitate past the Schwarzchild radius into a singularity.
What is frightening about government pensions is taxes WILL be raised despite economic conditions so the conies in government can take care of their own.
When a group of people elected can steal and get away with it then it is called a mistake or a bad calculation is a fallacy!
It's a crime and governments have done it forever to it's subjects (slaves). Term limits for Congress!
serf
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/01/1340826/-Big-Money-Buying-Votes-End-It
One might think then that public funding of elections would gain acceptance and predominance in a democracy but it has not worked that way in the USA (probably nowhere). Extant politicians (could not have been elected without big money) put enough "big money" favoritism into such legislation as to promote its immediate or eventual failure while at the same time they can say they voted for the legislation. Supreme courts have often, if not predominantly, found against such legislation, even when adopted by ballot initiatives.
Once a government allows non-public money to influence elections how can the public regain "one person one vote equivalence" in the political marketplace?
In Illinois, the pensions are sure to bankrupt the State!
It would be nice if it worked that way.
quote:Originally posted by mango tango
In Illinois, the pensions are sure to bankrupt the State!
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