It's not the keeping, but the trying to keep. :)
( And that's assured by the twin voting blocks of senior citizens and unfilial, barren, rapacious consumers.)
Please explain. Those are some weird adjectives and a strange noun. I would say "greedy, parasitical welfare recipiants of all types, corporate, minority, arts, special needs, etc." Unfilial? Barren? (I guess not having enough kids is a big problem w/ the Ponzi scheme, isn't that why we have virtually unlimited immigration compared to the rest of the world? Rapacious? Well you got that right- Dictionary: 1. taking by force, PLUNDERING. 2.Ravenous: greedy 3. RAPTORIAL