Food stamp nation – Inside Investing Daily
Trouble is, people are catching on. And this is where the tragedy
begins. The welfare state -- the world we have known all our lives --
is, fundamentally, a Ponzi scheme.
The average voter hoped to get more out of the system than he paid
in. That's the unwritten "social contract." The masses give their votes
to the politicians who promise to give them more than they put in. And
until now it worked. Bigger, richer generations -- and debt -- allowed
the politicians to pay off.
But now, the next generation is smaller... and poorer. They don't
understand what is going on. They don't know which politicians are to
blame. But when they get hot about something, they cause trouble.
In Greece, they're battling police in the streets. The New York Times:
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