Say you now have to have your "retirement annuity" deducted from your paycheck to fund the new government retirement system that is being planned for in lieu of your self-directed personally run account.
You will be forced to buy long term treasurys. Say you're retired and have a MYIRA type account in VUSTX (Long term treasuries as those will be mandated by government in future, so they can use your savings along with every one elses to buy up their treasuries and pay down their debt). If you have a savings of S300,000, along with your Social Security, (which is now capping and cutting down the amount you can receive starting with next year), be aware that the fund VUSTX most recent distribution for December 1, 2015 was $.02824/share, and $300,000 would buy 24038 shares on that date. This would give you $679.00 a month and that is supposing that interest rates stay the same. If interest rates go up 1% long term Treasury bonds lose 12.&% of their value.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303636404579395543442224618
So, if you are retired, do you think you can afford to live on $679.00 a month + some Social Security?
Get used to the idea. The current budget bill, passed by the numbnuts comprising the current Congress to appease Obama, has set up the requirements in writing for this to be passed in the near future. It will be done through requiring business you work for to withhold your enforced deduction (along with the SS and tax withholdings) to be put in the nationalized retirement system of government bonds, the proceeds which will be used to pay on the gov't debt.
(If you invested $300,000 in your own self-directed brokerage account with no government control and interference, you would be able to achieve up to annual payouts of dividends worth 75-$80000/year or $6250/month if you are extremely aggressive, or $1000-3000/month if you are a conservative investor.
But that's OK, sheeple don't mind living in enforced poverty to bail out their socialist handlers, do they?
Butt