[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here used to be a saying prior to Social Security, the old died in the summer from lack of food and the winter from no heat. We will return to that then, and no I do not think their will be any mad max stuff old and disabled folks rarely have enough energy to cause problems.

[odegaard]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'â')€¢Gun ownership increases with age. 48.1% of the 18-25 year-olds in the sample report owning a gun, compared to 67.8% of people 60 and older.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('beamofthewave', 'T')here used to be a saying prior to Social Security, the old died in the summer from lack of food and the winter from no heat. We will return to that then, and no I do not think their will be any mad max stuff old and disabled folks rarely have enough energy to cause problems. Since we as a nation have chosen to give our treasury to Goldman Sachs, 30 trillion in the past two years, our national resources such as oil to other multinational corporations, I believe we will soon be living like the people in Cambodia. Are the Cambodians living Mad Max? NO, the majority of people in the USA will be very, very poor very soon, people who thought they had money will find out it is worthless and the very rich will move with their money to a first world country that did not give their treasury to Goldman Sachs. The only consolation is that Tim Greithner will relocate to work in China the up and coming new rulers of the world. I hope I get to live long enough to see Halliburton try to create a mess in China so they can charge for cleaning it up like they do in USA. Heads will roll, China's leaders would simply try and convict and decapitate the CEO's the same day.

[hillsidedigger]

My answer to such 'when' questions is the year 2028.

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', 'I') always find it interesting that people think that a central government or central bank will somehow continue on forever. It must be something about our embedded desire to believe in deities. In actuality they all fail at some point. The Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the USSR (the largest state in the history of the world) all disappeared along with their currency system.

[Windmills]

Just about any kind of government check, program, or payment is "entitlement" or "welfare" to me. I'd lump a heck of a lot of useless and ultra-expensive military contracts into the welfare category, along with NASA and everything else that takes government money. If sucking off the government teat in any form is welfare, the question then becomes, which of the programs is deserving of welfare handouts?

[Voice_du_More]

There is no way the US government can stop sending out entitlement checks either to the banks or to the low income and seniors. Millions of seniors would starve, millions of hungry low income workers would take up crime, and the banks would move all of their wealth to Switzerland and start lending only to the Chinese.

That said it is equally unsustainable to send the checks since the productive labor base in the country is shrinking constantly and the resource upon which our growth depends is trending in levels which do not aloow that growth to continue. It has yet to hit the radar screen of most middle income people because the pastors of the land are more interrested in debating about scientific discoveries they know little or nothing about rather than speaking truth in love. And let us not simply blame the conservatives for being myopic or delusional.

The truth is there are but a handful of people really being honest about what is currently happening and what is about to happen. That is a recipe for disaster and the disaster may seem to be take a breather right now but that won't last another six months.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'B')asically the illegal aliens are going to be cut off first.

[odegaard]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'J')ust about any kind of government check, program, or payment is "entitlement" or "welfare" to me. I'd lump a heck of a lot of useless and ultra-expensive military contracts into the welfare category, along with NASA and everything else that takes government money. If sucking off the government teat in any form is welfare, the question then becomes, which of the programs is deserving of welfare handouts?

[jasonraymondson]

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[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow are *cities* paying their bills when tax revenues are falling like a rock?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'o')ffering early retirement incentives

[MarkJ]

One of our schools that offered early retirement to veteran teachers hoped more teachers would take the deal, but many didn't take the deal. They ended up terminating a few dozen teachers and staff, plus cut benefits, classes, programs and activities.

Some schools may be closed in the near future as well since school age population has dropped in some regions, plus many schools may merge with other schools.

One local school recently had close to 700 job applications for 2 available teaching positions which shattered previous records by a mile.

Two of my aunts are refused early retirement incentives offered by their school systems as well.

[mattduke]

Is there an entitlement equivalent to turbotax to help one maximize their welfare checks?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'I')s there an entitlement equivalent to turbotax to help one maximize their welfare checks?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'S')ocial security checks stop and we will see mad-max.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'J')ust about any kind of government check, program, or payment is "entitlement" or "welfare" to me. I'd lump a heck of a lot of useless and ultra-expensive military contracts into the welfare category, along with NASA and everything else that takes government money. If sucking off the government teat in any form is welfare, the question then becomes, which of the programs is deserving of welfare handouts?

[odegaard]

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[beamofthewave]

Entitlement checks to who? If your answer is "too the banks" then the answer is not as long as the government is in existence.