"We're too broke to be this stupid"

Mark Steyn outdoes himself with his latest column in Macleans.  His point:  the welfare state contains enormous amounts of waste that we tolerated when we were 'rich' (well we really weren't rich, we just felt rich because we were borrowing from our kids) but now that the bills are coming due, we're sitting there with the credit card statement and scratching our heads "I paid WHAT? for the Gamay Beaujolais?  I must have been out of my mind."

As Mark points out:  "When you're rich, you can afford stupidity, when you're broke, you can't".

As they say, read the whole thing here:  http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/27/were-too-broke-to-be-this-stupid/2/