The Crux of the problem.
Overly generous pensions are to blame as well.
If we’re not cutting the size of government now, as it pulls us under like an anchor, when will we?
Same old socialist story. Those who worked, saved, were prudent, good stewards, etc, must be punished, to pay for those who spent like they printed their money. Thus achieving the to-be-expected result that no one bothers, and a whole economy is then destroyed, and the tyrannical socialist government makes its play to take over everything “for the common good”. They have more ways of doing this one thing.