See this is where you lose me. I won't even get into Greece, where it still wasn't the case. But let's talk about Spain which I know very, very well. Entitlements had nothing to do with Spain's problem. Not at all. Nothing. Hell, government spending itself had nothing to do with the current problem in Spain.
Maybe it's a global trend but we love to throw shit around in the US to prove out points. And this isn't even liberal vs. conservative. Both sides pull this bullshit. It's like the framing of the argument is more important than the substance itself.
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