Imagine that we’re in a parallel universe and that you’re the lookout on the Titanic. But in this make-believe world, you have all sorts of fancy radar that allows you to detect icebergs with lots of advance notice. 
Furthermore, imagine that you detect danger and give lots of warning to the Captain and other officers.
How would you feel if they then decided to ignore your warnings and continued on their course to disaster? You’d probably tear your hair out in frustration.
And that’s a pretty good description of how I feel about the easy-to-predict, visible-to-the-naked-eye, baked-in-the-cake, bound-to-happen fiscal crisis that will occur because of the combination of demographic change and poorly designed entitlement programs.
It’s happening in the United States. It’s happening in Europe. It’s happening in Asia. Heck, this is a worldwide problem.
Simply stated, welfare states were created back when everyone assumed…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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