[exDemMom]

He denied that there was any real economic problem related to entitlement growth: "We live in a time of self-imposed scarcity. Our American economy produces far more than enough wealth to go around, but, as working people, we see less and less of the wealth we produce."

Um, Trumka--we're producing less and less wealth, period. As the number of producers continues to decline, and the number of takers increases, that pot of wealth will just keep on shrinking. Wealth redistribution schemes were never designed to give the takers a comfortable lifestyle--they are meant to give bare subsistence and foster dependency so that the recipients of the redistributed wealth keep voting a certain way.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!