It's the 600 lb. gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about.
Every time that someone brings it up, the Democrats start demagogueing them. It's time to demagogue back. Make hard-hitting and factual statements about what is going to happen if we do nothing, and put the Democrats on the defensive, i.e. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT!!??
We have a stark choice: we get control of entitlements or go the way of Greece in a decade or less. Every day we put it off, it gets worse, and harder to fix.
“Entitlement reform.
It’s the 600 lb. gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about.
Every time that someone brings it up, the Democrats start demagogueing them. It’s time to demagogue back. Make hard-hitting and factual statements about what is going to happen if we do nothing, and put the Democrats on the defensive, i.e. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT!!??
We have a stark choice: we get control of entitlements or go the way of Greece in a decade or less. Every day we put it off, it gets worse, and harder to fix.”
Excellent post and idea — but this will NEVER happen in American politics.
Even “conservatives” aren’t going to go there, even after it becomes obvious that a collapse may be nearing. (Aside: you see exactly the same approach going on today with the European debt crisis, one “fix” after another, none of which do anything to address the real problems)
The only way entitlements are ever going to be fixed in America — or anywhere else in the “western” nations, for that matter — is for the systems to simply collapse from their own weight and debts.
Only AFTER the collapse has occurred, and the true nature of the _consequences_ of such collapse become apparent (including social upheaval), will ANYone take substantive actions to repair the system.
Remember what Ayn Rand said:
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of reality”
Washington politicians of all persuasions will purposefully “evade reality” regarding entitlements until it’s too late, and THEN try to pin the “consequences” on the OTHER party...
That’s the “reality” of entitlements in America....
Wish I could be more optimistic about this, but I’m a cold-hearted realist.