$600 tax credit in may - How will it effect sales?

[HappySqurriel]

Faxanadu said:

rocketpig said:

Faxanadu said:
Well, here its not much better. We are facing serious issues in retirement funding, as the current system will eventually collapse and we young ones will not get anything out of it - yet we have to pay a lot right now and the shithead politicians just raised the retirement amount again...

It's a pretty common problem in most western countries. It's just that, for some reason, people love to bash America for it. The same goes for national debt per capita.

no, that is a bit of a bigger problem in the states than here...especially with what Bush started. so that criticism is justified. Plus look at the trade deficit you guys have over there...staggering. At least we have a trade surplus. 

The unfunded liabilities in Social Security (government pension plans, medicare/health care, etc.) can not be blamed on one leader in any country; Bush may have done things that made the situation worse but for nearly half a century most western countries have been increasing spending, and adding social programs without any plan for paying for them.