| commonsense:
BUT THEY DID IT FOR LESS ! ! ! !
Our average age is rising, our health care payment system is nonsensical, improvements in health care diagnosis and treatment are on the net making "adequate" health care more expensive (ADD, autism, the girl who lived four months without heart..., etc), our populace is undereducated, our politics has gotten stupider, our food crapier, and our waistlines larger.
So we have a relatively inefficient sillyminded government of which more per capita is expected because of improvements in technology, because we are irresponsible with our own bodies, and because we have given it an additional duty or two (e.g. Bush's prescription drug plan). That is, at least in part, why taxes and the national debt have gone up so much. You'll note that part of the blame is our own culture.
In so far as government is concerned, in a democracy, the people reap what they sow |