A person close to me heard Jack Layton on the 6 o'clock news Sunday evening, where he was talking about all the wonderful things he planned to do when the NDP was elected government in Canada.
“It's admirable he'd like to do that” this person said, but wasn't it France that just had riots when they had to increase the retirement age because they could afford paying pensions at such an early age?”
“Yes” I replied, “and other countries around the world have been having no end of grief, and near financial meltdown, because others have had to prop them up when their treasuries were facing bankruptcy.”
Most of us can list off at least several of them such as Greece and Portugal – but there have been many others.
