Will This Entitlement Mentality Ever Stop ?

[Ichiban]

Remember the Mustang Ranch Fiasco ?

It takes some sort of special talent to lose money selling liquor and renting women.    

[Ping]

I agree with cutting the "you owe me cause I have none" off at the head. I get so sick and tired of those who think they deserve a piece of the pie and have not put forth the effort. Everyone was given the same opportunity through a free education through high school. Anything above that, work your arse off to achieve it.

There were six years that I worked my butt off with overtime that the last two months of the year I did not have to pay anymore Social Security till the following year. If I remember correctly it was well over $36,000 I paid in each year. I know that I will never see a dime of that money after I retire cause it is all being given away to lazy people who do not want to work for it.

Frustrating as hell.  

[Pathfinder]

The sooner the better.  I only have a few more years of work left in me.  I'd hate for it to hit a decade from now.  Plan A in a crash is to move back home to Louisiana and farm.  I've kept the tractor up, the farm implements, the artesian wells and the land has had a couple of decades to recover from earlier farming.

Can I come too? ? ? ? ? 

Like Moses in the desert, the current entitlement mindset will not go away until the entitled ones all die off. they will never voluntarily give it up - ever!   

[Badgersmilk]

Can I come too? ? ? ? ? 

Like Moses in the desert, the current entitlement mindset will not go away until the entitled ones all die off. they will never voluntarily give it up - ever!   

Can't fault society for lack of trying.  AIDS, crack, meth, Sickle Cell...     oops!

[billt]

IT"S ALL OUR MONEY, EINSTEIN!!!!!!!

+1,000 !

This is the thinking that has been totally lost. The government has nothing on it's own because IT PRODUCES NOTHING. All it does is consume OUR MONEY and grow larger in the process. This requires yet even more money to sustain. This constant expansion will come to a grinding halt on it's own because there isn't enough money to sustain it. This is why all of this will be self correcting. Most of the money they allocated in the raising of the debt ceiling just a few days ago is already gone. This process will again repeat itself as it has over and over.

This is where the thought process of today's young liberals who banter, "We've raised the debt ceiling under every President", will come to a crashing halt, just like the housing debacle. It crashed because there was no actual wealth in the system to support it. It was all borrowed and spent paper. Our current government will do much the same. Call it a "forced savings". Just like the banks who thought the housing boom would never end, today's current crop of liberal politicians along with the idiots who put them there, think the well will never run dry. Both were, and are wrong. The question is not, "Where do we get more money?" But rather, "Which departments will we close?" All of the screaming and political bitching won't effect it, anymore than the people who bitched and moaned they couldn't sell their houses for half of what they owed on them. Both are flat out screwed. No money means no money. It's a universal language that everyone understands......except out government. They soon will.  Bill T.

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