There is a warning here for us Conservatives as well: too many years of eating at the trough of Government excess causes the freeloaders to become brain-dead and violent when you try and take their freebies away from them.
That’s the disastrous part of a social market economy. The liberals in DC have been incorporating too much of that into our formerly free market, and the same thing is happening, of course. Note how in Europe they’re trying to raise taxes in the vain hope of keeping their status quo, though . . . that’ll make it worse.
Agreed. People talk a good game about cutting spending.
If someone actually did that here, he or she would be just as unpopular as the current Spanish Prime Minister.
No, I don’t see anyone actually doing that here. A sizable chunk of the American public, if not the majority, would vote them out of office. All you have to do is look at the third rail of politics — social security. That program and so many others should be reformed and gradually shifted to privately, held individual retirement accounts. However, anybody proposing those measures would surely lose in an election. The political parties are just going to keep on using a visa card until our line of credit dries up — basically, playing musical chairs hoping to catch a seat before the music stops.