Denial: "This was PROMISED to me, and the government dare not break their promise!"
Anger: "You ungrateful young twerps! I put you through college! How DARE you say that I may not be able to get that government funded kidney transplant when I'm 92!!"
Bargaining: "If we can just cut Senator's salaries, and..and..Foreign Aid...and...and..Subsidies for artichoke growers...then we can keep the SS and Medicare train rolling!!"
Depression and Acceptance will come. It's just a question of whether they come while the massive default can still be averted.
With so many Freepers still in the first two stages, and with what that implies about the much dumber and more liberal population outside FR, I doubt it very, very much.
It’s not entitlements when it’s your money.
If the government was considering this an *investment* then they owe the money to the people they took it from, with interest.
It’s not denial. Denial is not realizing that the government TOOK people’s money with the promise that they would get it back and then abdicating on that promise.
Entitlement is welfare and food stamps and medicare and medicaid. Stuff that no one invested (even by force) in but that is just handed out for those too lazy to work for a living. Entitlement mentality is them thinking that someone OWES them all that just because they’re alive breathing the same air as you and I.
It is not entitlement to expect a promised return on an investment.