Re:Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster tha...
by logfromblammo on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:11PM
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The wise course would be for every working-age adult and operating business to avoid domiciling within the state of Illinois. It is already bankrupt, and it may take some time before everyone involved is willing to admit to it. I'm certainly not going to volunteer as tribute.
The big problem here is that we are expecting people to be bound to promises made by their predecessors, without ever being a party to those original negotiations. When one generation promises itself lavish benefits, to be paid for by future generations, they shouldn't be surprised when those future generations tell them to go pound sand. One of the big problems with the US model of government is that it never erected any enforceable barriers to kicking a can down the road long enough for it to become someone else's problem. It's just so easy to outvote the opposition, when they haven't been born yet.
So now we have this generational warfare, where the grandparents' generation took out loans, had a big party of borrowed prosperity, and then structured the payoffs to happen after they were all dead. Then the parents' generation decided they could only afford to have 2 kids instead of 3, and immigrants were no longer welcome, because jobs. Then that dead, skeletal hand finally reaches across the years to give young people a giant, bony middle finger, and then pick their nearly-empty pockets.
If those kids think school shootings are a threat to their lives, just wait until they graduate, and 80% of everything they earn is actually going toward helping the grandmas and grandpas pay for their little blue pills while breeding antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea in their luxury retirement communities. They'll want those guns back, when they're out nationalizing the assets of retirees, and herding them into assisted-living ghettos, chewing through property portfolios in order from eldest to youngest. That's what springs to mind whenever I think about Illinois's pension problem: "Screw you, you entitled assholes; you're going to get what's coming to you, and it isn't money."
The big problem here is that we are expecting people to be bound to promises made by their predecessors, without ever being a party to those original negotiations. When one generation promises itself lavish benefits, to be paid for by future generations, they shouldn't be surprised when those future generations tell them to go pound sand. One of the big problems with the US model of government is that it never erected any enforceable barriers to kicking a can down the road long enough for it to become someone else's problem. It's just so easy to outvote the opposition, when they haven't been born yet.
So now we have this generational warfare, where the grandparents' generation took out loans, had a big party of borrowed prosperity, and then structured the payoffs to happen after they were all dead. Then the parents' generation decided they could only afford to have 2 kids instead of 3, and immigrants were no longer welcome, because jobs. Then that dead, skeletal hand finally reaches across the years to give young people a giant, bony middle finger, and then pick their nearly-empty pockets.
If those kids think school shootings are a threat to their lives, just wait until they graduate, and 80% of everything they earn is actually going toward helping the grandmas and grandpas pay for their little blue pills while breeding antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea in their luxury retirement communities. They'll want those guns back, when they're out nationalizing the assets of retirees, and herding them into assisted-living ghettos, chewing through property portfolios in order from eldest to youngest. That's what springs to mind whenever I think about Illinois's pension problem: "Screw you, you entitled assholes; you're going to get what's coming to you, and it isn't money."