” The lecture on your part may have been with the best intentions, but in the interest of putting-your-money-where-your-mouth-is......
What would be your solution to them problem of a system you can’t get rid of yet are forced to contribute to? Pay into they system but never collect from it? “
First of all, the “system” is not a “system” it’s a tax that’s called something else but it’s just a tax.
The solution I prefer is that we pare down all the expenses of government and entitlements until we no longer spend more than we have - and then some so that we start paying off the debt.
That is ultimately the only reasonable solution. But government is not reasonable. The solution Government has in store for us will take one of two forms: 1. Default on Debt, or 2. Hyperinflate. Either of those will be a defacto end to “benefits as we know them”
This is not about resentment, or self-flagellation, or feeling guilty. It’s about numbers that don’t add up - and coldly and cruelly set expectations towards reality.
So I’m not really lecturing per se, I’m stating facts as I see them - they may not be exactly correct, but one may not always guess the exact size of the tsunami before it engulfs you - but that doesn’t mean it isn’t in front of us
So what’s your solution, other than restating the problem again?
Which I am aware of.... but that wasn't the question I asked.
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The solution I prefer is that we pare down all the expenses of government and entitlements until we no longer spend more than we have - and then some so that we start paying off the debt.
Again, I agree and see the problem as you do.
While the long-term [and preferable] solution would be to get the government OUT of the charity business, I wasn't speaking of what should happen or may happen, but what IS happening.
Since government obviously WILL NOT restrain itself and manages to either publicly vilify or legally punish anyone who even attempts TO restrain it.....
I say anyone who 'contributed' into it should feel NO GUILT from taking from it.
And may we all continue to do so until the entire thing collapses under its own putrid weight.
-— That is ultimately the only reasonable solution. But government is not reasonable. The solution Government has in store for us will take one of two forms: 1. Default on Debt, or 2. Hyperinflate. Either of those will be a defacto end to “benefits as we know them” -—
Sad but true.