Journalist Grandson of Socialist Presidential Candidate: ‘We Can’t Pay’ for Welfare State ‘Any More’

Geoffrey | April 23, 2012
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“The welfare state is something we can’t pay for any more. It’s demographics. We used to have five workers for every retired person. Now we have there. We’re soon gonna have two. Europe is even ahead of us on these demographics. We cannot afford the benefits we all got accustomed to. And the political system has not figured out how to adjust to that.”-Evan Thomas on the April 20, 2012 edition of Inside Washington.

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