[pullquote]Plan C is you can shiver hungry in the dark for all I care[/pullquote]
You boomers are in trouble. Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets. This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked. They used it as intended, and you have abused it, hollowing out the programs while expanding them, so that all that remains is a system of empty shells. Now you want to retire on it, and there’s nothing left. So you’ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.
Well maybe we will, and maybe we won’t.
It’s not going to be there for us, and it may not even be there for you. Plan A was the original pyramid (at best) or Ponzi scheme, which has clearly run out of rope. Plan B has been discussed for decades, and finally offered as the Paul Ryan plan. In Plan B, we close the system down gracefully by allowing you all to ride out as you expected, if you will just get out of our way in our attempts to fund our own receding retirements. You have unwisely resisted.
[pullquote]How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to realize that your parents have sold you into slavery[/pullquote]
Plan C is you can shiver hungry in the dark for all I care, and the programs will simply be axed the moment we get half plus one across the board in Washington, D.C. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to realize that your parents have sold you into slavery. The greatest generation saved the world from totalitarian domination. Your lot wondered why they bothered.
I urge you to take Plan B while it is still on the table. No group of people has ever been made so generous an offer by a group with as much dispositive power as my generation has over you. As much as I would find Plan C distasteful, the fact is you are oppressing my generation with decades of austerity so that you do not have to face the hard reality that you assign to me. You have consumed the greatness of this country while borrowing against it. Now the only collateral left is my generation, which I assure you, will not be sold. I will turn your sorry carcass out of doors in a heartbeat if we cannot find a better way out of this. And rest assured, we will find a way out, one way or another.
So think it over, but don’t dawdle. As you boomers used to say: Ti-i-ime is on my side.
Agreed.