Times are tough for many Americans today.
We all suffer from a lack thereof. Too much debt, no retirement in place that will support them when the time comes and inssuficient, or no insurance protection.
Some financial experts suggest we are teetering on the verge of a modern day recession. Whatever the case one thing is true, we, as Americans, are not financially prepared for the future.
What is being, “Financially Prepared” really mean?, a person once asked me. My reply is always the same. To have the following aspects in place:
- Debt Free – a strategic plan to have all major debt reduced to nil come time to retire, mortgage(s)included
- Retirement – a strategically funded investment, designed to allow you to retire with all the money you need to continue your life style as you see fit
- Insurance Protected – a whole life, or fixed universal life policy in place to not only protect the family from the impending reality of life, but to serve as the vehicle for the retirement investments as well. This is a permanent, 100 year policy, not a “Term” policy that will end someday, probable before its needed.
- An Active Money Merge Account in conjunction with a Line of Credit, secured or unsecured.
You see, most Americans today…..do not have a plan in place to achieve these goals and therefore are in danger of finding themselves greeting at WalMart in those most precious golden years, a harsh but realistic consequence for not planning properly, when they had the chance.
I need to point out, this is the condition of mind we are brought up with. Think about it, why is it that the richest 3% know so much more about finance than the other 97% of us? Is it the Ivy League educations or are they mostly just born into wealth or trust fund kids spending away with impunity? Not really. America makes a lot of money on our ignorance, the banks know how to make and invest $$, we all use banks, pay their interest to them. We pay taxes and are told to invest money into our government designed retirement accounts such as 401K’s, etc. Why not, its to their advantage that we use these vehicles for our retirement investment as they take nearly half of it from taxation when its time to retire at 63. We are conditioned to do things a certain way, to trust the government and to not ask questions. Be good citizens, follow the leaders and live out our happy lives.
Consider, why aren’t there classes in elementary or high school that teach our youth about the concepts of investing for their own benefit or world economics so we graduate international leaders who can solve our economic problems by first building a country where most of us are brought up understanding the concept of finance and how it relates to our lives. How many of us actually become engineers or physicists? We are forced to learn geometry, trigonometry, things that the majority of us will never use…… I have been a mortgage planner my whole life and haven’t applied geometry or trigonometry once as an adult. But If I knew then financially, what I’ve come to learn though experience, wow would I have had a better head start on my own retirement plan.
Consider this, its a fact that if parents took out a strategic permanent life/investment policy at the age of 10 for or on behalf of their children. And reasonably funded that account with even a yearly tax refund until the child was 18. Then the child taking over the funding, with their tax return from there…… that child would be set by the time retirement came, guaranteed. Here’s the best part…insurance investments are TAX FREE. That’s right, Uncle Sam, doesn’t touch the cash.
What would the world be like now if our parents were encouraged to do this for us. It would mean that we would have a nation where the majority of us were financially fit and healthy and no one would care for Social Security issues, we would be self sufficient.
This is an interesting commentary and might provoke some thought from its readers, some of you might be saying, well, its too late for me to fix things…I’m in my 40’s, 50’s or beyond.
Folks, its never too late to benefit from the same financial concepts institutions gain from.
The Money Merge Account System is the answer, it not only solves the issues that prevent us from being “Financially Prepared”, it builds your retirement fast, using the BANKS $$$$.
Find out more by visiting my site and get a “Free, Money Merge Account analysis” on how YOU can become Financially Prepared for your future! Its, free, its 15 minutes, what do you have to lose?
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