I read this paragraph about Angela Merkel, Germany's stalwart leader, and found it to be profound on many levels.
“If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world’s population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it’s obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life,” Ms Merkel said in the interview.
Isn't it great that there are no such problems in the United States? Oh. Wait. There are?
So, the ones that work have to work harder for the ones that don’t work?
Why sure! What could possibly go wrong?