Now what do we do?
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:08 am
Somehow I've been feeling this one coming. The only way is a huge as in tectonic shift in the way the Government spends $$, and they can't do that and keep getting elected, and "we the people" will keep electing people who promise us more money.
[url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-12/paying-down-debt-now-almost-mathematically-impossible][color=blue]Impossible to pay off debt[/color][/url]
[i]"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."[/i] - Elmer T. Peterson
[url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-12/paying-down-debt-now-almost-mathematically-impossible][color=blue]Impossible to pay off debt[/color][/url]
[i]"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."[/i] - Elmer T. Peterson