[sickoflibs]

RE :”Entitlements are like benefits to some government union workers. If you make them unsustainable, any kind of reform will evoke resentment among those who would have collected those same benefits. In some cases, paying union dues is a requirement for employment”

Or like a ponzi scheme where eventually someone will get screwed and others earlier are the big winners, But that plan contradicts itself by making such a clear discontinuity between winners and losers. Another point, I dont like bills that dont take effect until those that passed them are out of office. It's cowardly. Like most of Obama-care in 2014.

I was visiting a relative in his 80s today for the holiday, every week it seems he has a doctor story about some new problem, I naturally ask if medicare pays for each and it does, he was also complaining about the free electric wheelchair medicare bought him. He is very lucky, a good part of his career was before SS raised FICA taxes in the 1980s.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Or like a ponzi scheme where eventually someone will get screwed and others earlier are the big winners,

If crooks (not including the government) run a ponzi scheme, those who lose their money kiss it goodbye. When it's the government, those who lost money expect the government to change the laws of economy. And the government is likely to do just that, by printing money.