The intellectual and political architecture of this kind of attack has already been laid, and is well advanced, here in California. Hardly a day goes by without a newspaper article, op-ed, or letter to the editor in a local paper complaining about "unfair" public pensions that bleed everyone else dry.

And of course, the federal "cat food commission" that is determined to destroy Social Security and Medicare is due to deliver its recommendations in December.

And the world will live as one