[expedition32]

My mother told me that daycare used to be FREE in the 70s and early 80s. She was a working single mother.

Vote long enough for the VVD and you will see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

[inglor_cz]

The demographic structure was also different.

Europe has become a pensioner-heavy society since then, these people vote, and vote, quite logically, for the welfare system to support themselves.

All the rich societies which slowly transform from 10 per cent old people to 40 per cent old people will have similar cashflow changes.