Less than 49% of Americans are employed. Less than 39% of
French citizens are employed. In each case, fewer and fewer workers have to
support more and more non-workers who are on the dole. There are only two
possible ways to- temporarily- finance this: one, have the unemployed brazenly,
continually, and increasingly sponge
off of the (relatively few) employed, and/or two, run massive debts… until your
economy/society collapses. The first is patently unfair, and will of course
itself lead to fewer and fewer people working and a larger and larger debt. The
second, historically, leads to a simple fait accompli once a nation reaches the
point to which the United States is now approaching.
The
simple fact is this: if entitlement spending isn’t cut dramatically, the future
is bleak.
There
are no other options available to a society that is rapidly losing its belief
in the sanctity of work and effort.
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