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Originally Posted by Makarov
 And you don't think that local politics, and resistance from large segments of society to such drastic cuts (which have been proposed by nearly every government in Europe) has anything to do with the slow pace of change? Not to mention the possible economic and social side effects of laying off tens of thousands of civil servants? |
Pretty sure the the size of the US government has been dropping for a while now, and unemployment seems to keep going down despite that.
Either way, that is exactly my point. The baby boomer generation has spent years creating massive debt and deficits, and suddenly we're now at the point where governments have to promise MORE or they won't get elected.
The US can talk all day about cutting the debt/deficit, but at the end of the day unless they cut welfare programs and the military, nothing will matter. And that will never happen while the baby boomer generation has so much say-so when it comes to elections.
Hell, the Conservatives talk about changing OAS because of future costs that we won't be able to handle, and suddenly seniors are outraged. Why? Because we should burden ourselves with even more debt just to support them?
The hilarious part is how they demand those services, but don't want to pay more taxes. Alberta is a prime example of that. Record budgets, but very low tax rates. That can't work forever.