What You Will Get from Government Pensions as a % of Your Earnings

The trick to getting elected is to tell people what they want to hear and then deliver them the goods.

Doesn't matter if it undermines the future of your country because fortunately (for you) you'll be long dead before that materializes. So you can borrow against the future to promise people today what they want without having to increase taxes, ensuring you have a good, healthy and profitable political career.

And while you may think things are bad here in the US, just be happy we're not Greece;