Not letting the social contract fall on me.

One of the most disturbing parts of the irrational extension of the Depleting Bush Tax Rates as our country needs more funding to be able to function to protect us is that the debt liability which was incurred by those tax rates and is growing as they are maintained is not going to go away, even after the government is so crippled by lack of funding that it will serve us no purpose. Those who hold that debt will pursue us to pay it into eternity with no protections of fairness which a functioning government could force. Those who will be forced to pay this debt will be the ones who cannot afford to protect themselves from it.

At a certain point, if the management of government is not carried out with the understanding of its only purpose, to protect all of us from the antisocial forces among us, it will be necessary to withdraw from the overt social contract that we have with each other, and allow that public debt we have to fail. Instead, we will have to rely on smaller, hidden arrangements with each other, in order not to be consumed by the bigger and more powerful among us. When this happens, I wonder how long it will take to be able to set up an overt replacement arrangement between us all which recognizes and supports our individual hopes and works.