If it gets so bad that the government is stealing our pensions.....well I hope these end of the world views are wrong.
Now, now. This is not the end of the world, just the end game for all governments run by sinful man.
It has occurred since the dawn of human government and will occur for every human government.
Inevitable as the business cycle, human government will always turn greedy, promote its own self-interest and self-preservation, stifle then rob its subjects to keep the ball rolling, then finally with one last "hurrah", implode and collapse under the weight of its own fat.
-Lemming
"It is the doom of men that they forget"
- Merlin in the movie Excalibur
"Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."
- Proverbs 23:5