Fight For Your Right...To Deficits?

Oh for crying out loud, I can't believe this. People protesting and getting killed... they are upset over the fact that the Greek government is cutting spending. Whoa... The Greeks have to cut spending because they have too much debt... Far out! So their creditors and other voices of sanity are demanding some fiscal changes... Radical! 

Why the hell are people protesting this? Why do people think that their government should spend money it doesn't have? Why are they so attached to having deficit spending? This is life in the big city, folks. There is no magic fairy to give you everything you want. Life's been pretty good in the Western world. Perhaps we've become accustomed to spending in our own lives and by our governments that is unsustainable today. Like the tech boom, it was only a matter of time before the crazy ride we all just fell off of came to an end...

So here we are... we all have a certain amount of money and then all that we want to do with it. When the money runs out, do we sit down like adults and suck it up, realizing that we can't have all that we want, or do we act like a bunch of whiny little spoiled brats and throw what amounts to a tantrum over the fact we don't get any more candy?

Grow up, people.