It's never enough. "Bread and circuses" keeps the people at bay for a while, but eventually the producers stop producing and it all collapses.
Going Galt is all the rage. Really won’t solve our problems however.
You know, I thought about that and you are absolutely correct.
During the Great Depression people often had no recourse to unemployment except charity, soup kitchens and moving to California (like in the Grapes of Wrath). Still, the media of the day told them Roosevelt was fixing things, making them better and really cared for them! It still took a World War to set things right and America lucked out by being the only unscathed power after it was over.
Fast forward to today and instead of charity we have big government doing it all. It’s not necessary to stand in line, beg or move. You get a credit card (EBT), free cell phone, housing paid for, unemployment check for two years, and welfare or easy social security disability after that. And, of course, the driveby media has never been so partisan and promoting of one political party in general and one president in particular.
Is it any wonder who people will vote for?
(Hint: Not the guy who says no. Let’s get back to hard work and fix things. Especially when his message gets spit on and distorted by the driveby’s)
But as you say, the bill is going to come due. Like the grasshopper fiddling while the ants work, winter will come.
We have actually ensured our own demise in this past election. JMHO.