It's Over Welfare

Western Europe over half a century has enjoying a splendid and enviable status of welfare benefits unparalleled in any other period of history and any other country in the world today.

The trouble is that, demographic trends and an aging population, this placid current prosperity has been maintained in recent years at the expense of future welfare of our children and our grandchildren.

If that in itself is already severe, the worse is what has happened to the last countries arrived to that state of economic and social prosperity, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal, we got to spend like crazy to reach all hurry the level of others and we have just mortgaged to the hilt. Now, of course, comes the wailing and gnashing of teeth because they can not maintain that lifestyle.

People, who take away our things that we thought we had it right and we thought we were pissed off we went free. It is therefore logical that violent strikes in Greece, protests against Nicolas Sarkozy in France and now Britain against the harsh cuts that David Cameron calculatedly avoided mentioning in his election.

But the only method that exists for our children to maintain a certain standard of living is dramatically reducing our own. And that Mariano Rajoy knows that when he criticizes the timid Zapatero settings it does is a simple exercise in hypocrisy.

And, believe it or not, and although no one want, it's over what was taken.