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22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That Could Destroy Our Economy All By Itself (Video)

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(N.Morgan) The economy in this country is failing miserably. The govt can’t stop spending money that isn’t there and thinks printing more helps the situation. It doesn’t. The economy is sinking further and further into demise. The Baby Boomer generation are facing issues they had never anticipated facing, the aspect of no retirement. There’s even been talk about raising the retirement age, since it is becoming increasingly impossible for a Baby Boomer to retire.

 

This country is facing imminent disaster, a financial tsunami, that will leave devastation in its wake.

 

 

The following are some of the hard numbers about the demographic tsunami which is now beginning to overtake us…

 

1. Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the United States.  By 2050 that number is projected to skyrocket to 89 million.

2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.

3. One poll discovered that 26 percent of all Americans in the 46 to 64-year-old age bracket have no personal savings whatsoever.

4. According to a survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, “60 percent of American workers said the total value of their savings and investments is less than $25,000″.

5. 67 percent of all American workers believe that they “are a little or a lot behind schedule on saving for retirement”.

6. A study conducted by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research found that American workers are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

7. Back in 1991, half of all American workers planned to retire before they reached the age of 65.  Today, that number has declined to 23 percent.

8. According to one recent survey, 70 percent of all American workers expect to continue working once they are “retired”.

9. A poll conducted by CESI Debt Solutions found that 56 percent of American retirees still had outstanding debts when they retired.

10. A study by a law professor at the University of Michigan found that Americans that are 55 years of age or older now account for 20 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States.  Back in 2001, they only accounted for 12 percent of all bankruptcies.

11. Today, only 10 percent of private companies in the U.S. provide guaranteed lifelong pensions for their employees.

12. According to Northwestern University Professor John Rauh, the total amount of unfunded pension and healthcare obligations for retirees that state and local governments across the United States have accumulated is 4.4 trillion dollars.

13. Right now, the American people spend approximately 2.8 trillion dollars on health care, and it is being projected that due to our aging population health care spending will rise to an astounding 4.5 trillion dollars in 2019.

14. Incredibly, the United States spends more on health care than China, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined.

15. If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet.

16. When Medicare was first established, we were told that it would cost about $12 billion a year by the time 1990 rolled around.  Instead, the federal government ended up spending $110 billion on the program in 1990, and the federal government spent approximately $600 billion on the program in 2013.

17. It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.

18. At this point, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years.  That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.

19. In 1945, there were 42 workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.  Today, that number has fallen to 2.5 workers, and if you eliminate all government workers, that leaves only 1.6 private sector workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.

20. Right now, there are approximately 63 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits.  By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million.

21. Overall, the Social Security system is facing a 134 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 75 years.

22. The U.S. government is facing a total of 222 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities during the years ahead.  Social Security and Medicare make up the bulk of that.

 

 

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    • Jerry

      Celente is a good man and smart!!!

      Under NORMAL circumstances his theories would have played out!

      We ALL know nothing in the economy is either normal or real. Unil the key players walk away from the game the GAME will continue!!! REGARDLESS of ALL the common sense and obvious facts!!!

    • Killzilla

      Social Security is NOT unfunded.

    • Rufus Juice

      For most there will be no retirement as we think of it. You will go from your pinnacle having worked your way up to middle management ~ until they decide you have passed your point of usefulness, and you end up waiting tables or stocking shelves in the new “service economy.”

    • CrowPie

      Social Security is not UN-funded. And the seniors of today….will NOT live 75 years. These numbers should be racheted down to match the actual years of probability. Not these over-blown scare tactic, run screaming for the hills, and cancel everything numbers.

      This is propaganda. Not truth in reporting.

    • Fred C Dobbs

      PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — The Social Security trust fund really does exist — nestled in the bottom drawer of an unremarkable government file cabinet.

      http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-28-trust-fund_x.htm

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