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Aric Johnson: Hello and welcome to Private Banking Strategies with Van Slo and Seth Hicks. Seth, how are you?
Seth Hicks: Doing great. Aric, how are you?
Aric Johnson: I am fantastic. I’m excited about today’s subject, Vance. I was looking over to the notes. You guys send me [00:01:00] some notes ahead of time just to kinda help me to get ready for the podcast kinda a little bit what I’m gonna learn today and it just absolutely.
Had me thinking about some videos that I’ve seen lately, I’ve been watching, uh, like Congress and the Senate have brought people in to, to question, right. They’re questioning about all sorts of things. We’re not gonna get into the politics of it, but what I’m noticing is more and more somebody will ask a question, like on a regular sunny day.
The sky is blue. Would you agree with that statement? And the people that they’re questioning can’t answer it. They won’t answer it, yes or no. They go off in this huge long description of, of, well, it could be this, da da, da, da. No, I just want a yes or no answer. And they just refuse to answer yes or no.
And I think they’ve learned that from the politicians, right? I think we’ve kind of come full circle, the politicians that we’re dealing with. They just never quite say a straight answer. They don’t exactly tell the truth, and it’s frustrating to me. I know it’s frustrating to a lot of people, so when you gave me these notes today, I thought, okay, this is right in line with everything we’re [00:02:00] experiencing today.
We just, there’s not a lot of trust out there. Right.
Vance Lowe: Well, Aric, I think you hit it right on the head and it’s the purpose for our topics today, and I think it’s very timely. Seth and I and you and everyone else we’re being bombarded. Information today that just is absolutely insane and crazy. Mm-hmm.
And so, I think we should head down a way where we can ferret out some of that misinformation and make sure we’re protecting ourselves, our loved ones, our families, and trying to do the right things.
Aric Johnson: And I think people just want. , right. They just want somebody to tell ’em a true statement.
And it’s so much harder today, and maybe I, I’m just getting older , but it seems so much harder today than it used to be.
Vance Lowe: Well, you’re right. As long as you don’t infringe on their truths. That’s what I’m finding, and I’m [00:03:00] finding that people who feel that this is truth, when in fact it’s not. It’s not only not true.
It’s 180 degrees opposite, and this is where we want to go today. Okay. All right. Where do we start? Well, we’re gonna start with, uh, why thinking is such critical part of a decision process. All about how we think in life becomes critical. . And in order to start that we know that government has created programs and everything else that have kind of steered us in our thinking, and we’re gonna expose some of that.
And we’re, we each are gonna think of this and decide where we think the answer is versus what might be the truth. For instance, I want to throw out there a [00:04:00] question. , if we’re gonna be taxed by government, would we rather be taxed on the seed or the harvest? Seth, what would you say?
Seth Hicks: Well, it, it would be best to be taxed on the seed and then not the harvest.
Obviously the harvest is a multiplication of the seed.
Vance Lowe: All right. But have you noticed. That on the tax qualified plans. See, government created the issue by, you know, giving us a bunch of taxes and we all complained. And now they tried to sa save that a little bit. So they create tax qualified plans and in fact, they are just the opposite.
Yeah, like 401ks and things, right? Yeah. Yeah. They say, we’re gonna take it off your tax, uh, your taxable income for the purposes now, and then [00:05:00] it’s gonna build income tax free on your retirement and you will be in a lower tax bracket at the time you’re going to need it. That’s an outright lie.
That’s always been a miscon um, conception. So we’re in the lowest tax bracket we’re gonna be in. And I’ve asked for the last 50 years almost, do you believe taxes are going down or do you believe taxes are going up? Everyone? I don’t have anyone saying taxes are going down. Sometimes I, I get somebody who’s so misdirected that will say, well, in my case when I retire, I will be in a lower tax bracket.
I said, do you know what you’re telling yourself in. , you just, you’re telling yourself that you are going to have to lower your stand of the livering because you failed, planning for retirement. Do you realize that? And that kinda wakes him up and, pops a [00:06:00] little bit of a bubble there. And again it’s about how we think everybody gets in a little bit of a comfort zone and decides that, oh well, Maybe this is the case.
Maybe that’s the way it’s gotta be. So, ha ha ha for us, in essence that we’re suckered again into government programs and regulations. Too many times, we’re just willing to believe what government tells us, and it’s now to a point that government is either not even gonna tell us anymore. Or will throw out a huge lie and it’s just so surprising that so many people will believe that.
So
Seth Hicks: I think, I think that’s why we take a step back and like we’re doing here with a more philosophical 30,000 foot overview to actually think about the [00:07:00] systems the government systems in place, including like your 401k which has been Ute. For a number of decades as this great thing, especially with employer matches and such, but for those who are, have their thinking caps on and realize that the the national debt is 31.5 trillion, and much of that has occurred just over the last two and three decades.
There is a reckoning to come. Anytime you ask someone who understands the printing of money and the devaluation of your purchasing power in relationship to taxes, they understand that taxes can only go up over the long term to cover that. So they’re strapping, they being the fed reserve the bankers, the politicians, those who are pulling the puppeteer strings understand that they’re strapping others with this burden, but, I mean, we’ve talked about this before you guys, is that, [00:08:00] you know, the 401K is, and other qualified plans is in essence they’re scams.
Even the the father of the 401k switched rails and talks about how he created a monster and that it is not something that he recommends for.
Vance Lowe: Well, I think you’re so right. You know, AmAricans have swallowed the lies for so many years, but reality finally sets in and then all kinds of despair happens.
It’s just, it’s unbelievable, what was us, so to speak, when we find out reality versus what we thought were gonna happen, what can we do about it and what does AmArica do about it? Aric, you know, when they don’t like something as a group, who do they turn to to fix it? Oh politicians, which they don’t have to.
Yeah. Back to the politicians. Yeah. The people who put ’em in the same mess, lied the heck out of everything. They go right back to ’em and ask ’em to fix it. And that is to me totally unbelievable. [00:09:00] Einstein actually put this the best and I wanna try to quote it cuz a lot of times it gets mis misquoted.
So he said there is nothing. There is nothing that is more cer a more certain sign of insanity than to do something over and over again and expect the results to be different. Mm-hmm. just a very ingenious man. All right. I’m gonna give you all some statistics now that are taken out of one of Nelson Nash’s book.
It’s about 11 or 12 years old. So we’re we’ll need to redo the math on, uh, the numbers here, but you’ll get my point as we go along. The first one is the US Postal Service was established in 1775. At the time of the book, that was 237 years in business for the government to try to get it right and it went broke.
So [00:10:00] that’s like, today it would be more like 248 years. So government didn’t do a very good job there. The next one was social security. That started, uh, actually started functioning in 1935. They’ve had, uh, in the book it says 77 years, but if I bring that current, it’d be more like 88 years to try to get this right and they’re broke.
I want to talk about social security and what they promised the people back when it first started. It took several years to sell the people because the people were thinking correctly back then where they’re not doing that today. Okay. So Seth, I want you to help me out here a little bit and talk about social security and why, it’s been such a government ripoff for the people to have to pay those taxes.
Seth Hicks: Well, I [00:11:00] mean, just from a fundamental Phil philosophical standpoint. I mean, AmArica is, uh, a capitalistic country and it was founded upon free enterprise the freedom and the right to associate it. It rewarded creative thinking, it rewarded competition, it rewarded free market, enterprise and social security is the antithetical.
Polar opposite of that, it’s actually rewarding people for doing nothing. For, uh, it’s a socialistic program. It mirrors communistic and socialistic culture in which we know that Marxist and Communistic Policy is doomed to fail. It’s failed every time, all the time. And thus social security was doomed to fail from the beginning.
Vance Lowe: You’re so correct o on that, it’s more of a Ponzi game. A Ponzi scheme works when you bring money in, to fulfill the [00:12:00] obligation of the people who paid in earlier. More people later on are gonna pay more money in, so we’ll use that money to pay for social Security. In the meantime, we’ll take the money and do what we want with it.
Here’s, the truth about social security and had they lived up to their promises, the money coming in, if it was put into an account and earned 5%, Over the working life of individuals. If I brought that current today, social security would represent close to $150,000 income from Social Security to retiree.
And we’re not anywhere close to that, are we? We’re only at an amount that isn’t even the poverty. and governments literally having to create money out of thin air to fulfill the social security obligations. As it [00:13:00] stands today, they’re going deeper and deeper and debt cuz they do not have the money coming in for social security.
So there’s the second one that’s failed. We got, a total of seven. Fannie Mae was established in 1930. They’ve had, close to, uh, 85 years now, and they’re completely broke. The war on poverty. I don’t know if everybody can remember back that far. In 1964, government had now 56 years, if I bring it current to date, and over, well over a trillion dollars of money confiscated each year.
Toran, that’s supposed to be transferred to the poor and they want more. They haven’t got it right yet and they’re broke. So I don’t, you know, kind of know where we’re going. With government programs. They introduced Medicare, if you’ll remember, and Medicaid back in 1965. That’s. [00:14:00] Freddy Mack, which is another government program, was, uh, um, created in 19 seven 1970, and they’re broke.
And that’s over 50 years, uh, plus worth of effort trying to get that right, the Department of Energy. Now, here’s a really good one, was created in 1977 to lessen the dependence on foreign. It has ballooned back then and again, I’m, I’m 11 years old here back then to 16,000 employees, a budget back then of 24 billion a year.
And we import more oil than we have ever done up to this point, you know, and it is an absolute dismal failure of go. So we have to understand that every single government program that government has literally crammed [00:15:00] down our throat has failed. So why do we want to trust those folks with our retirement programs, the tax qualified one?
So where’s the problem now if we’re contributing to those? The government’s shown us, you know, their fell rate. They’re at a hundred percent fell rate, and yet the masses of people whore money into these qualified programs, like it’s the only thing they can do. So guys in, you look at those folks and to.
Where did they get educated? How are we educating our children? We’re amazed, or it is amazing that it all boils down to how a person thinks when I talk today. Seth, and you can expound on this, when we talk about [00:16:00] people, why are you putting money in these 401ks now? Why are you participating in, uh, these qualified accounts?
What do you.
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Seth Hicks: Yeah, you, you know, you really have to burst the bubble in in people’s thinking when it comes to these retirement plans, and especially if someone’s running in their lane doing what they do in their expertise. And perhaps they’re a high you know, [00:17:00] Employee at a company and they think that, Hey, my company is matching contributions.
And but they don’t ever break down the numbers. And when you actually break down the numbers and you think about the tax you’re gonna pay on the harvest rather than the seed, and you think about the illiquidity, you can’t touch the money. There are penalties for trying to take it out too early.
There’s penalties for. Leaving it in too long, you have no control over it. You’re effectively putting your money in prison and letting the government create all the rules. You have to beg for permission to get your own money. Then as far as the market returns, there’s fallacies in that as well, which never seem to pan out.
And what. You know, our engaging with folks is really a, a wrestling match with their thinking and helping them to understand that you can trust yourself a lot more solidly for most folks than you can trust the government to [00:18:00] control your money. And when you break it down and explain it like that Most people can see the light and understand that, hey, I can do better than the federal government can do with my own money and my retirement planning.
Aric, I mean, we’ve, you and I have discussed this off air. Some wouldn’t, wouldn’t you say there’s a, a process, a metamorphosis in thinking to really get down to understand this stuff?
Aric Johnson: Oh yeah, absolutely. Because the stuff that you guys are teaching, I’ve been with you since the beginning. It took me a while to catch on, right?
To really understand all how all the pieces work together. And so it’s, I want the audience to understand that if you’re just listening to this for the first time, or maybe this you’re, you know, you’ve only listened to three or four podcasts, go back, check out the library because you’re gonna begin to understand this more and more.
It’s not just one piece that’s like, don’t do a 401k. You can do better a different way. There’s a whole reason why they’re saying this, and there’s, there’s all these other steps that you have to look at as far as this overall strategy, because it is very [00:19:00] complicated. I mean, when I, when I was first working with you guys, I was lost
I was like I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I get it more. I get it much, much more than we used to, right? So,
Seth Hicks: I always liken it to martial arts because that person that walks in off the street and hits the mat for the first time, they’re lost too, and it’s totally formed to them and it’s super complex.
But once they’ve been there for six months or a year, it actually becomes quite simple. and you’re building on one block upon another, and things that were totally foreign in their thinking are natural and they don’t have to think about it. So that’s why I use that, uh, that analogy and that illustration is to be, some people can understand that and others probably better be better illustration, but just like you said, I mean, it was foreign to you until you got your head around the philosophical change.
Mm-hmm. in gears, right.
Aric Johnson: It’s a muscle you have to exercise. To your point, [00:20:00] whether you’re working out at the gym and, and you have exercise routines that you do, or using your analogy with martial arts, when you do the same move over and over again, when you begin to to read and understand and listen to these podcasts, those are the muscles that you need to exercise.
And once you begin to get that muscle memory, it becomes much easier to understand and grasp and change that.
Vance Lowe: and we have to wait This, this is the whole full circle here and this is why we’re doing it. If we attest that back to putting the banking equation back in our lives and being able to take control of money, we have to expose what’s wrong.
Mm-hmm. and the wrongness is our thinking. We think correctly and we don. And so that has to be exposed so that people are willing to say, okay, if it’s not my way, What’s the right way? If it’s not government way, what’s the right way? So if we can expose what’s wrong, [00:21:00] people can correct what’s wrong and better themselves.
And that’s what this first half of these, the TU podcast, uh, theories series is all about is now we’ve exposed the thinking. There’s a still another critical. Problem that we have to face every day in AmArica. But, uh, so I just, you know, in saying that, it’s all about how we think we have to think correctly and we have to know that there is new or better information out there that is correct versus what most people think they should be doing.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Aric Johnson: All right. Well guys, this is a great first podcast. I’m looking forward to the second half of this. If folks are, you know, don’t wanna wait two weeks for that next episode to come out and they want to just, okay let’s see what these guys are really talking about. I’d like to talk to ’em in person.
How do they do that?[00:22:00]
Seth Hicks: Well, you can find us@privatebankingstrategies.com. That’s Private banking strategies.com, and on our website, you’ll have the benefit of a free book offer. You can read it in pdf d or you can listen to it in an audio form, and it is a red. Book we like to call it, which helps to shine light on some of these issues, Aric.
And there are secrets therein that some people are unfamiliar with. And so that’s why we call it a red pill book because it will challenge people’s thinking and expose some of the fallacies and government systems and financial, uh, banking systems. That, that help people make a better decision for them and their families.
And af after you’ve read that book, you can also listen to podcasts until you’re blue in the face. We’ve produced tons of content there and you can listen and until [00:23:00] you’re an expert, like, anybody else on these subjects, and it, once this content resonates with you, that’s where we invite you to schedule an exploratory call with Vance, where he starts to show you how this will apply.
To you and your financial life and actually lays out an eight year roadmap for you that shows you exactly where to turn, where to shift gears, and exactly how it’s gonna benefit you and your family on that eight year journey and onward. So that’s our process. All right.
Aric Johnson: Fantastic. Guys, thank you so much for the time today. Thank you for the first podcast. I’ll be sticking around for the second one.
Seth Hicks: Awesome. Thanks Aric. Thank you so much. You bet. And our last thank you. Go Steve, the listening audience. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening to the Private Banking Strategies podcast with Vance Lowe and Seth h.
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