If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, we need to face the truth
7th August 2011
The idea that a capitalist economy can support a socialist welfare state is collapsing before our eyes, says Janet Daley.
7th August 2011
The idea that a capitalist economy can support a socialist welfare state is collapsing before our eyes, says Janet Daley.
August 7th, 2011 at 12:27
The truth we nust face is this: ITES. (It’s The Elderly, Stupid.)
In the days when life expectancy was less, Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid were not that great a burden. Providing enough to keep Granny from destitution was simpler when there weren’t so many old people, and keeping them going wasn’t so expensive.
We have, through the marvels of technology, extended both contributary causes to the looming financial collapse: There are more old people, they are living longer, and the cost to continue both conditions continues exponentially.
What we must face is the fact that the human body CANNOT be maintained indefinitely in anything resembling a life worth living without more and more expensive intervention.
Mandatory euthenasia at age 75, with “Death Panels” rationing who gets the expensive interventions and who does not, will be the ultimate answer. We will come to it, eventually. We won’t be able to afford to do anything else.
August 8th, 2011 at 11:55
Wow. Really?! I seriously hope you’re just being sarcastic, Dennis.
Social Security has always been nothing more than a pyramid scheme and as such is doomed to failure. As with all socialism, there is a fundamental problem that eventually you run out of someone else’s money.
There have been any number of proposals to wean the sheeple off of Social Security, but those efforts have been crushed by the Democrats. Social programs keep people dependent, effectively enslaving them to your party. “..Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains..” (Has anyone ever channeled CCR on here before?)
We’re not stuck on an island with limited choices and so the answer is not to throw your extra people into the volcano, but to walk away from it. Stop spending money that you don’t have and force people to behave like intelligent creatures instead of insects.