It’s a Cookbook! (Sorry, couldn’t resist)
I am not confident that we will ever solve the entitlement problem without a complete collapse of the government and its ability to pay.
Here’s why: I have a friend who considers herself a conservative. She rails against the “entitlement mentality” and hates “socialized medicine”. She listens to Rush. She watches Fox. She supports Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann or Rick Santorum next year. She votes GOP.
Two of her own three children are severely disabled (they really are), and she’s paid to take care of them by the government.
Their health care is covered by the government.
Their day-to-day expenses are paid for by the government.
They’re in school until they are 21, paid for by the government.
If you want to raise your blood pressure, ask how she’s different. The answer you’ll get is that her case is “different”. Because her kids really “need” that money, those services, and all that.
She’s the problem. There are a lot of her. Millions of her. Maybe tens of millions of her. And many of them call themselves conservative.
And until there is literally no money to pay her and her kids and the millions like her, there can be no solution.
The extended families or the charity of Americans or religious organizations will fund the truly needy. It’s who we are. It’s what America is.
STOP SPENDING! DEFUND all socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. Give “free” citizens back the $ they were forced to put into these socialist programs and SHUT THEM DOWN.
Legislatures (state and federal) can be part-time jobs with 1/10th pay, NO retirement, NO perks, NO insurance. Get a job. Pay for your own crap, you POS politicians.
“...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...”
ALTER it.