Martin Niemöller was a pastor and theologian in Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime. Pastor Niemoller, like most Germans at the time, believed Hitler was a great man, and he was going to save Deutschland. Soon, though, the pastor discovered the truth. Hitler was a dictator, hell bent on creating an all powerful state. Money, businesses, freedom, and even your life were expected sacrifices for the Nazi regime. The Jews of course would be another story. Seizure of the economy and the money was the key to full control. Socialist all over the world understand, if you control the money, you control the economy, and you control the people.
Today, Europe is standing at a precipice about to go over the edge. The government elites of each European country know their time is short, and realize their parasitic ways are coming to an end, the money is disappearing. Panic is setting in. What to do? The answer is...Go after savings, and force the people to invest in the government. Jan Iwanik, writer for the CSM (Christian Science Monitor)uses a great quote from a classic gangster movie when describing these tactics, "the government made the citizens an offer they could not refuse". Hungary, Bulgaria, France, and Poland are confiscating the retirement savings of it's citizens. First, Iwanik points to the Hungarians, and how their government is forcing individuals to remit their money into a state run program. He says, "They (Hungarians) could either remit their individual retirement savings to the state, or lose the right to the basic state pension (but still have an obligation to pay contributions for it). In this extortionate way, the government wants to gain control over $14bn of individual retirement savings". Bulgaria, in similar fashion is trying to confiscate $300m in private retirement funds. France and Poland have taken $33bn from the national reserve pension, which is a public fund, intended on being used in 2020 - 2040 and using it to fund pensions now. Good luck to the younger generation, because there will be no money come 2020. Poland seems to be a little more "generous" because their government only wants to seize 1/3 of future savings.
All parasites eventually die, either the host figures out the parasite is killing it, or the parasite kills the host. I believe in Europe the parasite will kill the host before it dies. The money can only be siphoned off so many times before there is none left. The welfare state can only go on so long, and Europe is no exception.
You would think in America we wouldn't have to worry about the government seizing our savings, they would never do something so despicable. Oh, think again. When governments see the real possibility of losing power or control they will resort to any tactic to retain it. With the U.S. running a $14tr deficit the power elites know what this means and will stop at nothing to preserve the status quo. In the U.S. they came for the income of the working class in 1913 by instituting the income tax. This was ironically the same time the Federal Reserve was created, and the people said nothing. It is just a matter of time, before they come for our savings, and investments, and when they do will we be strong enough to say, no.
In prison, after the Nazi government arrested Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller he wrote a poem, and I find it fits the situation of today, not just in Europe, but in the U.S. as well.
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
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