There’s welfare and then there’s SS. Take everyone off SS who is not a retired US citizen or a completely disabled US citizen and the rolls shrink significantly. SS has morphed way beyond what it was intended to be.
As for welfare same deal. Take the illegals off and require a 20 hour weekly workfare and the rolls probably drop in half.
Its not really that hard to fix but it will take some guts to ignore the screaming from the left and the MSM when you do it.
Another idea for a fix: anybody who receives money for welfare in any form (to include social security), is welcome to as much as they can get; but, they forfeit their right to vote.
That would help preserve democracy as a stable system.
Only taxpayers can vote; and those who accept the dole, lose their ability to vote themselves more money.
Not perfect, but stable; and protective of the middle class.
“Its not really that hard to fix but it will take some guts”
Greenfield and you avoid specifics on the outcome of welfare state failure. We’ve heard over and over that our welfare machinery is going to break but no one gives serious thinking to what will happen when it breaks.
I think it will be various forms of chaos. That’s as good as I can do.
Just like the border problem. Cut off the freebies for the parasites and locust invaders and balance would self-restore.
The problem is that the situation has been purposely created to drive demand, instill dependency, and fund/establish/enable an goverment machine to control every aspect of society. Power for the sake of power.
At this point of the game, any pol who appears to want to *genuinely* fix things through honest principles is 1) hopelessly naive and will get eaten alive, 2) easily corrupted or blackmailed into compliance, and/or 3) a deceiver playing the role of "good cop".
This can be discerned because the problem, as you said, *is not really that hard to fix*. So, why don't they fix it? They lie when they claim to have solutions to middle class woes.
The pols dance to the tune of those who are paying them to perform. If it were the American taxpayers and citizens - IOW the legitimate voters who have a natural stake in maintaining a healthy system - pols would fear the ire and wrath of the responsible citizenry. They don't. Instead, they flaunt their support for every destructive element that has infested American society - leeches, invaders, perverts, criminals, PC enforcers and all other lovers of lies and lawlessness.
Those are the folks they desire to please so as not to lose their power. Conclusion - their positions of power are not determined by the lawful voter, but by outside forces and legal voters who have become so utterly corrupted that their definition of responibility is to hire pols to steal from their fellow citizens.
SS is particularly insidious because it was established as an involuntary social contract, ultimately pitting generation against generation. Now enter Obamacare, pitting the young against the old, the healthy against the sick, the morally sound against the mentally degenerate.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. How "convenient" for the agents of change.
My theory is that the Day of the Lord is only delayed because there are way too many millstones still on back order. And that Hell is going to need a bigger mouth.