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Instapundit » Blog Archive » TOM MAGUIRE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES’ CAREFUL BLURRING OF ENTITLEMENTS: “Wait – Medicare is now a ‘saf…: "TOM MAGUIRE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES’ CAREFUL BLURRING OF ENTITLEMENTS: “Wait – Medicare is now a ‘safety net’ program? I thought that, like Social Security, it was an earned benefit – we all paid our taxes, and we are all eligible. Medicaid is means-tested; Medicare is not.”

Plus, from the comments: “If you’re paying for the pizza, you might as well take a slice. That’s the other part of the big government agenda. One is to create a permanent class of non-paying clients while the other is to make sure everyone else takes advantage of entitlements they’re paying for.” Yeah, you don’t want people to question the whole redistribution scheme, so you displace alternative approaches then call anyone who uses it a hypocrite if they complain. It’s political genius, until you run out of other people’s money.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:22 am"

And the money is about to run out. And even a temporary hyperinflation can't stop that. Because it's actually not money that's about to run out -- it's the ability to follow through on promises not backed up with resources. And why is that? Because the investments that would have been required to deliver were never made and were instead squandered on political favors and corruption. And of course no amount of non-squandered investment would build a beanstalk to the sky anyway.

But I'm "anti-government" because I'm against the corrupt, lying jack*sses that populate our political class overlords? Maybe you'll get it when they start building the new, new "anti-fascist protection barrier" -- look it up. You might not like the direction the barbed wire will be facing.

Welcome to Al Gore's real "lock box".