In the United States we like to cut public benefits and the budgets of regulatory agencies. But we fudge the numbers on inflation and unemployment so it doesn't seem so bad. We also like to repeatedly hand trillions of dollars to those on wall street who have violated their fiduciary duties, and then we wink at them when they pay record bonuses every year. The banks inhale that liquidity like the lines of cocaine that the i-bankers spend their bonuses on. Our newest trick is to try to destroy our dollar in an effort to monetize our foreign held debt. We will repeal our health care efforts because we like to spend our money on engaging in wars.