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How the government will steal your entire life savings, should you ever live in a nursing home If you are ever lucky enough to live the American Dream and beat every POS thrown at you during your career, and become “successful” by saving a… Continue Reading “Medicaid: Understanding the difference between Long-term Care Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion: Part 2: Long-term Care (LTC) Medicaid”
How the ACA forever changed Medicaid and why you cannot afford to miss out on the program Just a warning: this is going to be a long, but very necessary article, and probably one of the top 3 most useful FIRE articles I will… Continue Reading “Medicaid: Understanding the difference between Long-term Care Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion: Part 1: Medicaid Expansion”
In the earlier segment we discussed the effects of student loans from a national standpoint, and how to fix them. In this segment, we will dig into exactly how student loans are for many “educated” American families, one of the largest POS’s we face.… Continue Reading “Student loans: The ultimate POS”
Part II: Housing: How your traditional mortgage is a 30-year game of Russian Roulette, and why your home is only worth One Thousand Dollars Once upon a time, but not too long ago, there existed a well developed yet evolving country where a family… Continue Reading “How the American Dream has become the American Nightmare”
After World War 2, my grandfather started sorting mail in the basement of American Electric Power, a Fortune 500 company, and by the time he retired, he had risen to the rank of division manager. He eventually became a lobbyist for AEP, which lead… Continue Reading “How the American Dream has become the American Nightmare and how to fix it. Part 1: Student Loans”
I cannot count the numerous articles I’ve seen over the years from “experts” that have mistakenly claimed things such as housing costs, healthcare, utilities, or childcare are the largest annual expenses for the working class American, when in reality, taxes are the largest annual… Continue Reading “Working is overrated: Why it no longer makes any financial sense to try to work hard in our country: Taxes: The Largest Hurdle on your FIRE path, taking over 50% of your annual income!”
Second only to admitting you have a problem, finding a partner to travel down the FIRE path with you is the next most important thing you will ever do to obtain FIRE. I don’t care if its your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, best friend,… Continue Reading “Find a partner for FIRE to Fastrack your Journey.”
As cliché as it may sound, truly the first step in the FIRE process is to admit you have a financial problem and address it. The fact you are reading this, most likely means you have already come to this conclusion, but for those… Continue Reading “Step 1: The first step to financial independence is to admit you have a financial problem”
Chapter 1: My history I truly believe in order to understand my perspective, you need to understand my background. After all, its our life experiences that lead us to be the individuals we are today. You wouldn’t take medical advice from Dr. Kevorkian, banking… Continue Reading “Chapter 1: My history”
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