Originally Posted by
LEGAL TENDER
maybe the "golden years" were never sustainable, and today we are just paying the price of unrealistic pension schemes, benefits and budgets
If "austerity measures" to a degree are needed (and maybe they are/were), I wouldn't be so upset. Nobody really wants to live beyond their means.
When austerity starts to come about/is used as an justification for cost (and quality, and staff) cutting, at the same time as significantly wasteful practices are occurring,
that's what rips my wicket.