text: When you vote and govern emotionally, unable to make tough rational decisions on spending and promising the moon to everyone, fiscal disaster is only a matter of time. 
  
  Few will speak the truth, but the welfare state we have created in unsustainable in long term. Our healthcare costs are insane and completely unsustainable with an aging population who will use more services and a dwindling numbers of workers that can be taxed to support it. Couple that with environmental legislation and carbon taxes that stifle our oil and gas industry and we are lumbering towards financial disaster. We will become Europe.
  
  Rather than face these facts and tighten our belts, we kick the can down the road.