{"id":20225,"date":"2016-04-25T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20225"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:17:13","slug":"asset-recycling-robbing-pensions-to-cover-govt-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20225","title":{"rendered":"Asset Recycling \u2013 Robbing Pensions to Cover Govt. Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Asset Recycling \u2013 Robbing Pensions to Cover Govt. Costs\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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We are facing a pension crisis, thanks to negative interest rates that have destroyed pension funds. Pension funds are a tempting pot of money that government cannot keep its hands out of. The federal government of Canada, for example, is looking to reduce the cost of government by shifting Canada\u2019s mounting infrastructure costs to the private sector. They want to sell or\u00a0lease stakes in major public assets such as highways, rail lines, and ports. In Canada, they hid a line in last month\u2019s federal budget that revealed that the Liberals are considering making public assets available to non-government investors, such as public pension funds. They will sell the national infrastructure to pension funds, robbing them of the cash they have to fund themselves. This latest trick is being called\u00a0\u201casset recycling,\u201d which is simply a system designed to raise money for governments. This idea is surfacing in Europe as well as the United States, especially among cash-strapped states.<\/p>\n

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\"3d_text_perspective_10915\"<\/a>This is the other side of 2015.75; the peak in government (socialism). Everything from this point forward is a confirmation that these people are in crisis mode. They are rapidly destroying Western culture because they are simply crazy and the people who blindly vote for them are out of their minds. They are destroying the very fabric of society for they cannot see what they are doing nor where this all leads. Once they wipe out the security of the future, the government will crumble to dust to be swept away by history. We deserve what we blindly vote for.<\/p>\n

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Asset Recycling \u2013 Robbing Pensions to Cover Govt. Costs\u00a0 We are facing a pension crisis, thanks to negative interest rates that have destroyed pension funds. Pension funds are a tempting pot of money that government cannot keep its hands out of. The federal government of Canada, for example, is looking to reduce the cost of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9527,5496,13621,103,13622,379,2875,5479,558,1389,12248,1816,13623],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-2015-75","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-asset-recycling","tag-canada","tag-federal-government-of-canada","tag-government","tag-liberals","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-negative-interest-rates","tag-nirp","tag-pension-crisis","tag-pensions","tag-public-assets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20227,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions\/20227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}