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Its generally accepted that unless there are changes there will be nothing in the communal pot. Eventually, politicians will do something. I doubt millions of
by jf22 10y ago
Its generally accepted that unless there are changes there will be nothing in the communal pot.
Eventually, politicians will do something. I doubt millions of older, and therefore voting people will just accept there is nothing left.
- VLM 10y agoHmm yes like they'll never accept college is unaffordable, or health care is unaffordable, or real estate is unaffordable, or there's not enough blue collar jobs for decades, not enough white collar jobs more recently, not enough civil service jobs, etc. Doormats will be doormats. This is not the generation that stormed Iwo Jima, or whatever.
- Bartweiss 10y agoYou're talking about progress, which is mostly ignored. He's talking about regression, which voters hate. Tell people college is 300% too expensive and they'll sigh and agree. Tell them you're cutting 2% from income they're already promised, and they'll picket in the streets.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoDepends on which streets you're talking about. I live in a liberal college town in already-high-tax NY. We bitch and moan and cut another slice of artisan cheese from Wegmans before remembering that we live in a town with an educated population, an efficient and responsive local government with effective public services, plenty of parks, and one of the best public high schools in the United States. You get what you pay for. I pay a lot in taxes, and I get a lot back.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoCollege age people don't vote, so they don't get nice handouts. Retirement age people do, so they do. They even get socialized medicine which is supposedly "impossible" for the rest of us.