It's also time for older generations to demand responsibility of both the politicians and themselves that still benefit from these federal entitlement programs. The incessant drain on these systems is leaving little of nothing for future generations. Rather than forcing young people into more debt to cover the same broken systems, it's time to demand alternatives...and preferably constitutional and non-socialized ones at that.
DailySignal: Popular radio show host Mark Levin says when it comes to out of control entitlement spending, the federal government is “stealing from unborn babies.”
“Future generations don’t vote, they don’t exist yet so they keep stealing from them,” Levin explains to The Daily Signal. “They keep robbing from them which means they are going to have limited liberty, they’re going to have limited opportunity, limited wealth creation and we’re spending it all today … we are stealing from unborn babies.”
Levin details the problem in his new book, “Plunder and Deceit: Big Government’s Exploitation of Young People and the Future.” While Levin has written books before about the woes of a massive federal bureaucracy, this new venture aims directly at the younger generation and the impact it will have on them, especially when it comes to federal spending on entitlements.
“My concern is that your children and my children are going to be left holding the bag and there will be no way out.”
Levin points out how the two Social Security trust funds used to pay out benefits essentially have no money in them, filled with a bunch of IOU notes.
“I don’t even think people who receive these benefits know what’s going on. Many of them don’t know that the money doesn’t exist. All that money that they paid into the system, there is no system. That money was taken and it was spent the second it was taken on other government projects and other government programs.”
Levin says he’s sick and tired of establishment politicians talking about the need to reform entitlement spending. He says there are always plenty of proposals out there but President Barack Obama and GOP leadership don’t want to touch them.
“If we don’t start discussing them then those who claim to defend these programs, they’re the ones who are going to be responsible for their collapse.”
H/t: TRS
