by Tinker » Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:10 am
I don't really buy the reasoning that politicians put those programs in cynically. They were built out of a necessity to adapt to industrialization. The current problems are not an indictment of social security and medicare, they are an indictment of short term thinking and partisanship. Everything is a political football now so it is unstable.
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.