Go Ahead and Rage At Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order
4th August 2025
The entitlement programs to aid the elderly that were modest decades ago are now almost 50% of the entire federal budget, dwarfing all other spending. Entitlements aiding young families are so modest they aren’t even a blip compared to the soaring budgets of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. (Disability entitlements were added to Social Security, greatly expanding the program’s costs.)
No, the problem isn’t “the entire economic order” but rather the interference by government in the entire economic order under color of fixing a problem that government action always just makes worse.
Blanket-blaming “the system” is intellectually lazy and shallow. A system is composed of parts, and some of those parts are good and some of them are bad. Discrimination, even though it has a bad name in these degenerate Woke times, is a necessary component of effective action.