{"id":3092,"date":"2017-05-25T05:57:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:40","slug":"the-coming-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-coming-default\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And just who will pay all of these pensions, retirement plans, <em>benefits<\/em>? \u00a0Certainly not the next generation or the one after that. \u00a0Just because Roosevelt decreed it, that does not, in fact, lay a burden upon as-yet unborn grandchildren to suck up the debt for our comfy ending days. \u00a0When we are gone and the debt remains, there will be a &#8220;pinch&#8221; generation; those who try to retire in the face of (and on the backs of) an angry, indignant generation which both outnumbers and out-influences them. \u00a0By then, the once-powerful AARP might as well be NAMBLA. \u00a0By then, debt will be unsustainable, and the sacrosanct 50% of government spending, the supposedly untouchable entitlements, will suddenly be very touchable.<\/p>\n<p>If you think this generation&#8217;s constitutional awakening is impressive, wait until you see the next. \u00a0So who gets the pinch?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3092\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3092\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And just who will pay all of these pensions, retirement plans, <em>benefits<\/em>? \u00a0Certainly not the next generation or the one after that. \u00a0Just because Roosevelt decreed it, that does not, in fact, lay a burden upon as-yet unborn grandchildren to suck up the debt for our comfy ending days. \u00a0When we are gone and the debt remains, there will be a &#8220;pinch&#8221; generation; those who try to retire in the face of (and on the backs of) an angry, indignant generation which both outnumbers and out-influences them. \u00a0By then, the once-powerful AARP might as well be NAMBLA. \u00a0By then, debt will be unsustainable, and the sacrosanct 50% of government spending, the supposedly untouchable entitlements, will suddenly be very touchable.<\/p>\n<p>If you think this generation&#8217;s constitutional awakening is impressive, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-coming-default\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}