So whats going on with Greece?

[UCFEE]

To summarize your stance: We need to ignore the realities of major shifts in our nation's demographics and allow large segments of our population to age without income stability or access to healthcare, so that a relative few entities can continue to enjoy unnecessary incentives and not have to worry about increased future tax burdens. Oh yea, and so we can continue to fork over billions of dollars to an industry that fails to deliver over and over and over again.

Honest question, what do you imagine the U.S. looking like in 10-20 years if entitlement programs are scaled back to the degree which republicans want them to be, with specials interests still in control of Congress?

 

[UCFKnight85]

I would imagine it would like a more fiscally solvent nation where the entitlement obligations are actually funded in the out years and don't represent major financial drains on every younger generation for years to come.

What a terrible vision*

 

[UCFEE]

I would imagine it would like a more fiscally solvent nation where the entitlement obligations are actually funded in the out years and don't represent major financial drains on every younger generation for years to come.

What a terrible vision*

And how do you get there?

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Meh, who cares if the countries infrastructure is crumbling. We need to give away more free shit.

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Cut which is something 95% politicians won't do

 

[goodknightfl]

Again, there's much more wrong in Greece than just the entitlement programs. Point remains, using Greece's situation to rail against ANY entitlement program in the U.S. is disingenuous. A vast majority of liberals in the U.S. would not support such a large expansion in entitlements.

We will get there. One new program at a time. with Bush it was prescription drug plan for seniors, and free cell phones, with Obama it is obamacare, expanded medicaid, and food stamps. We are more than doubling debt every 8 years, sorry folks that doesn't last much longer.