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Comment by PaulDavisThe1st

5 months ago

> If we can't afford the current system,

What we can and cannot afford is a choice, not some immutable fact of nature.

A cynical, if realist, version of this would be: if we choose to not spend any more ...

But that's still better since it acknowledges that we, as a nation, have agency in this.

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