{"id":88549,"date":"2013-04-08T06:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88549"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:33:59","slug":"will-demographics-doom-the-dems-demagoguery-on-entitlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88549","title":{"rendered":"Will Demographics Doom the Dems\u2019 Demagoguery on Entitlements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/will-demographics-doom-the-dems-demagoguery-on-entitlements.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is an intentional feature of the ever expanding non-means tested unfunded entitlements regime that people believe that they have \u201cearned\u201d their entitlements and are \u201cowed\u201d them lock, stock and barrel. It locks the regime in politically because people won\u2019t cravenly agitate for free stuff (though they won\u2019t look a gift horse in the mouth either), but they will defend to the bitter end what they think is theirs by right. Our entitlement state problem arises from the widespread belief that they have \u201cearned\u201d their entitlements, most obviously by having paid payroll taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is trapped\u2026the Dems can\u2019t be for tax reform, they can\u2019t be for entitlement reform, and they can\u2019t tax the middle class without destroying the left\/New Class ruling coalition. There aren\u2019t enough \u201crich\u201d to tax sufficiently\u2026AND there will soon be a borrowing constraint. The people have been systematically lied to for over 70 years\u2013lies they have wanted to hear, though. If they ever figure out that it is THEY who have to pay for the welfare state and that\u2013systematically\u2013younger cohorts will pay a lot more and get a lot less, there will be hell to pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. It is an intentional feature of the ever expanding non-means tested unfunded entitlements regime that people believe that they have \u201cearned\u201d their entitlements and are \u201cowed\u201d them lock, stock and barrel. It locks the regime in politically because people won\u2019t cravenly agitate for free stuff (though they won\u2019t look a gift horse in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408502,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88549\/revisions\/408502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}