Much, Much Too Late...

Maybe we should all be praying for time?
(George again.)

Funny thing is,
some say, don't take the deal.

Worst thing can happen: we go broke, admit it, and work on real restructuring. Consume less tomorrow (which is probably overall healthy advice, regardless.) Being young, comparatively, myelf, I see it as "the pain we assume today is less pain to be passed on to tomorrow's (truly in need) seniors and youngsters."

Or have we already stopped thinking about tomorrow, just a catchy song is all that was?

End times a comin', no doubt about that. Doesn't take a CBO to score the coming demographical nightmare, if we keep the current promises.

You default -- essentially declaring bankruptcy, trust me, not something I'd ever counsel -- and make those who think they're already "in" (namely, the Boomers born before, what is it now, the "guaranteed" age, 1955? or a few years earlier?) share in the restructuring too. After all, that demographic's run up plenty of the bill... So far, it's all just fun and games to this age group, the coming gutting of the social safety net it will take to keep them, in retirement, in the lifestyle they've become accustomed to over the years... Cheers! *sound of wine glasses clinking...*

The next generation -- we're the ones currently paying in, who'll be eating the Boomers' tab.

So why not go for broke now ...
(we already have; it's just in the admitting it really.) Let them -- our affluent Boomer elders -- get in line to get paid back. But wait, you say. They've been counting on these promises. All their lives. You younger folk -- we've told you all along, better save up on your own, ain't nothing you're paying in gonna be there when it's time to cash out your chips. Double ditto for those folk in unrecognized legal relationships, and heck, even some of those not privately contracted-for in those 6 government places (including DC) where such civil relationships are recognized under the law. Don't be expecting any help for you and yours. We're out of money, honey. So sad, too bad...

So, I say:
Why not ask the Boomers... nay, force them if need be,
to step up too; ask them to share in the pain, and help to find the solution, the way out, so to speak?

If their own tails are covered, if their own entitlements guaranteed, of course it's easier to just push the tab on down the line... E pluribus unum*. Suckah!


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* It's the same problem I have with the ACA -- pushing the tab of some, who've consumed nicely for themselves, off onto uninvolved others. Either we're all in this together, or not.

If the set-asides fall, and the untouchables suddenly get financially ... touched, I think we'd all believe a lot more in the true power of compromise, when the special interests haven't taken this or that off the table in advance, for those 'specially protected players who were promised *whine* that they and their families had it coming already...

Level the gameboard already;
the machine's gone tilt.

If not now, when?
If not us, who?