{"id":649,"date":"2015-08-16T23:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:04","slug":"entitlements-plan-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/entitlements-plan-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Entitlements: Plan C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from August of 2011, when the Ryan Plan was news. \u00a0Has much changed?<\/em><\/p>\n

You boomers are in trouble. \u00a0Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets. \u00a0This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0Now you want to retire on it, and there\u2019s nothing left. \u00a0So you\u2019ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.<\/p>\n

Well maybe we will, and maybe we won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not going to be there for us, and it may not even be there for you. \u00a0Plan A was the original pyramid (at best) or Ponzi scheme, which has clearly run out of rope. \u00a0Plan B has been discussed for decades, and finally offered as the Paul Ryan plan. \u00a0In 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. \u00a0You have unwisely resisted.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0How sharper than a serpent\u2019s tooth it is to realize that your parents have sold you into slavery. \u00a0The greatest generation saved the world from totalitarian domination. \u00a0Your lot wondered why they bothered.<\/p>\n

I urge you to take Plan B while it is still on the table. \u00a0No 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. \u00a0As 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. \u00a0You have consumed the greatness of this country while borrowing against it. \u00a0Now the only collateral left is my generation, which I assure you, will not be sold. \u00a0I will turn your sorry carcass out of doors in a heartbeat if we cannot find a better way out of this. \u00a0And rest assured, we will find a way out, one way or another.<\/p>\n

So think it over, but don\u2019t dawdle. \u00a0As you boomers used to say: Ti-i-ime is on my side<\/p>\n

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Reprinted from August of 2011, when the Ryan Plan was news. \u00a0Has much changed?<\/em><\/p>\n

You boomers are in trouble. \u00a0Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets. \u00a0This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0Now you want to retire on it, and there\u2019s nothing left. \u00a0So you\u2019ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.<\/p>\n

Well maybe we will, and maybe we won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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