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<p>Would this qualifier help: “Never been forced to cut corners in a meaningful way”?</p>
<p>Oh, we all know that belt-tightening and massive cutbacks from the states are often hurled in news broadcasts. We all know there is never enough money! Just as government spending “curbs” work, the reality is that the only thing reduced is the level and rates of the increases in spending. </p>
<p>All what one needs to do is to look at the progression of the spending budgets in the past 5 decades to see that the “system” has never stopped increasing its spending, and that this was never truer than in the most recent past, and this despite all the “news” of cutting services, austerity plans, and low inflation.</p>