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4 Dividend Stocks to Hedge Against Social Security Failure

All my life , I've listened to people say that they would never receive their Social Security.
These same people not only received it, but did so for many years and died receiving it.
It is true that the program can fail, but if it failed as soon as it was forecast decades ago , it would be long gone and only a distant memory.
It IS being abused and mishandled by "some" of our politicians , no doubt, (What isn't where large pools of money are involved? Have you checked out the stealing and abuses of the Iraq War?) , but that can be stopped and corrected if we make it a high enough priority and insist on it, just like anything else in life and politics.

4 Dividend Stocks to Hedge Against Social Security Failure

Any good and worthwhile system can be abused, mismanaged, and thoroughly screwed up and destroyed by saboteurs , miscreants and special interests. We have just seen enough of that in our banking system to get the attention of even the simple minded .
In our country, this is especially true for a program that serves the general public instead of just special interests and marketeers.
These are valid reasons for keeping those people in office that will protect and improve a good system, and not use it as a piggy bank to plunder , exploit and propagandize for selfserving, and political reasons.
If my memory serves, the wholesale borrowing from Social Security was initiated during the Reagan Admin. wasn't it? These were not friends or supporters of Social Security.
This same thinking and "strategery" is the same kind that turns years of surpluses into years of punishing and frightening deficits. Something , once started, can take years to turn around and usually gets much worse before it can get better.

Perhaps our chances are improved on receiving Social Security and would be enhanced, if we keep those people in office that truly believe in it , are willing to financially sustain and improve it, and keeping those people out that are trying to propagandize, and plunder it for self serving reasons, and ultimately destroy it.

7 Low Debt Dividend Stocks

A fine screen and list.
In today's market , I would set an upper limit to the debt to equity ratio at 1.4 Max.
While the cash flow criteria is definitely important, a low debt to equity ratio combined with a low payout ratio could offset a somewhat lower 10 year cash flow, as long as the suitability, timing, and sector is right for an individual investor.
Thanks for your good work and helpful list.

S&P 500 Watch: March 'Winners' Are Actually the Biggest Losers

A good and interesting twist to data analysis , and we need as many views as we can get, almost all add something to be learned ,and at the very least help keep us current.
Your article serves all of these goals well.

As long as there is short covering, and massive Index buying, and futures arbitrage, there is going to be frequent distortions to what seems rational relative to the pricing of dog stocks that are deservedly beaten down, and then are artificially buoyed up by short covering and the Index buy actions.

This keeps us on our toes, trying to judge when the counter trends will yield to the fundamentally indicated direction.
Your data and comments helps us sort that out -- Thanks.