Comments on: The end of the entitlement era https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/#comment-16427 TB Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:24:33 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=18246#comment-16427 I see... You think your second paragraph was fictional. I see…

You think your second paragraph was fictional.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/#comment-16426 ER Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:56:07 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=18246#comment-16426 ...to satirize an exaggerated version of how I believe you see the world. And you can't even see what I'm doing. Did you ever see that movie "Wild in the Streets"? …to satirize an exaggerated version of how I believe you see the world.

And you can’t even see what I’m doing.

Did you ever see that movie “Wild in the Streets”?

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/#comment-16424 TB Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:31:07 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=18246#comment-16424 Where's the irony? Where’s the irony?

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/#comment-16422 ER Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:04:28 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=18246#comment-16422 You are still impervious to irony, aren't you.? You are still impervious to irony, aren’t you.?

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/13/the-end-of-the-entitlement-era/#comment-16421 TB Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:02:13 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=18246#comment-16421 <p>Some people have been saying for decades that this model was unsustainable.</p> Other people have been fighting change, saying that doing things the way we've always done them will work forever. This situation is not an Act of God. It is the result of a specific set of ideas and a specific set of policies. Cities in my state are literally going bankrupt. States and localities that thought they could give everyone everything are sinking fast. Two thirds of the Federal Budget is direct payments to individuals. Wealth redistribution. Europe is going down. From the same causes. Is anything being learned? Even now, anyone trying to even bend the curve in the other direction is viciously attacked. Look at Wisconsin. We know what ideology did this. Set us on the path to trillions in unfunded liabilities, and set us at each others throats for a dwindling pile of government loot. 116 days. Some people have been saying for decades that this model was unsustainable.

Other people have been fighting change, saying that doing things the way we’ve always done them will work forever.

This situation is not an Act of God. It is the result of a specific set of ideas and a specific set of policies.

Cities in my state are literally going bankrupt. States and localities that thought they could give everyone everything are sinking fast. Two thirds of the Federal Budget is direct payments to individuals. Wealth redistribution.

Europe is going down. From the same causes.

Is anything being learned? Even now, anyone trying to even bend the curve in the other direction is viciously attacked. Look at Wisconsin.

We know what ideology did this. Set us on the path to trillions in unfunded liabilities, and set us at each others throats for a dwindling pile of government loot.

116 days.

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