What Should be done about entitlement programs?

[opebo]

Drastic expansion should be done.

Retirement at 55.
Full pension for all (equal regardless of income)
Full socialized medicine
Make social security and medical tax progressive without a 'cutoff'.
$15/hour minimum wage
20 hour/week work week
12 weeks per year mandated holiday time
2 years primary childcare leave, paid, mandated, 6 months for assisting partner
full dole - food stamps, free rent, spending money

[opebo]

Retirement at 55.
Full pension for all (equal regardless of income)
Full socialized medicine
Make social security and medical tax progressive without a 'cutoff'.
$15/hour minimum wage
20 hour/week work week
12 weeks per year mandated holiday time
2 years primary childcare leave, paid, mandated, 6 months for assisting partner
full dole - food stamps, free rent, spending money

...a free ride through life is paid for by a few. We'll all get along, no one will have to work, ...

Come on, can't you READ?  The system I describe above isn't free, the people are still working 20 hours per week, and the rich are still not working at all, and everything is still paid for by the workers.  The difference is they just have to work a bit less and the rich get to use them a bit less harshly.

[opebo]

^^ Everyone this is exactly what Obama wants us to think of the rich and the current economic system of this country. The Democrat above has fallen for it.

No buddy, Obama's on your side.  I'm out here on my own.

Socialism and redistribution of the wealth has no place here. Go to Greece if you want to try that nonsense.

How do you imagine I can 'try' anything?  I have no power.  The rich have the power, and what happens is what they want.  I'm just a critic, which has no effect on anything whatsoever. 

[opebo]

...a) there is a significant intellectual cadre at the Atlas that has argued opebo is not left-wing at all, but far-right; and b) American liberalism itself is center-right and was "never intended to be a left wing" as Chris Hedges put it.  when its modern form was born out of the progressive middle-class reformist movement it acted as a mediator between the bourgeois that owned the society and the syndicalists that were firebombing timber factories.

...I can see obepo being far right and not far left.

Nice to be a reference point, lads.  There's little doubt I'm more right than left.  The king on his throne, the elephant in the street, and the girls in their house.  OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHMMMMMMMMM. (human progress is not possible).