You nailed it.
However most people here want to cut everyone else’s benefits, but increase their own.
SS, military and non military pensions, Medicare, and every other government benefit will have to be cut back. Not maybe, it will have to be. Either through inflation or out and out cuts.
A few years back, I realized that real conservatism in a fiscal sense was dead. Many complain about the cost of government, no one really wants to cut it because it would mean they would have to accept cuts themselves.
We are screwed.
And it will get ugly. If I have the choice to feed my family, or support SS or pensions, you know which one I will choose.
You nailed it. However most people here want to cut everyone else’s benefits, but increase their own...
A few years back, I realized that real conservatism in a fiscal sense was dead. Many complain about the cost of government, no one really wants to cut it because it would mean they would have to accept cuts themselves.
We are screwed.
And it will get ugly. If I have the choice to feed my family, or support SS or pensions, you know which one I will choose.
Great summary. Yeah, we’re dead. And what you describe is exactly what it’s going to come down to. It’ll be damn ugly in a way that will make American politics look more like Africa’s. We’ve already become a third-world banana “republic”.