[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Uh, take a look out an open window, this ain't the Soviet Union. But, if you are suggesting we go the commie way on no pay pension thingy, perhaps we soon will be.

[.cnI redruM]

That's exactly where we soon will be. Our current entitlements are demographically impossible to support. Our current administration and congress have made this problem demonstrably worse in two ways.

a) They've done nothing to check the growth of future liabilities in existing entitlements.
b) They've enacted new boondoggles such as Leave No Child Alone and The Prescription Drug Panderation Act.

We won't have the guts to budget in an intelligent and proactive manner, so yes, we will eventually go the way of all other failed socialist countries.