Not because of war, because of the social welfare system, aging populations and bank debt.
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They will also say that the social welfare system has failed to provide security and quality of life.
For one thing, it places additional burdens on the social welfare system rather than contributing to its solvency.
The government should resolutely and quickly lower corporate taxes and increase the consumption tax, while, at same time, adopting reforms to the social welfare system to lower its current and, particularly, future costs.
The social welfare system was likened to foreign relations and national security, as something on which the whole society should be able to come together and support as a kind of national duty.
Greece has an aging population and the need to restructure the social system to contain welfare costs has gone beyond critical.
The French foreign ministry on Friday pointed to "two limits on residency rights" under EU law: "respect for public order and possession of sufficient resources to not impose an excessive burden on the host country's social welfare system".
But for all the headaches, applying the UID to an expanding and reforming welfare system opens the way for profound social change.
Since China has the merest glimmerings of a social-welfare system, workers are unwilling to spend now what they might need tomorrow.
Considered as a welfare program, the Social Security system is rather perverse.
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But when the global financial crisis struck in 2008, Mr. Sarkozy relied on debt to support banks and auto makers and to preserve the country's generous social-welfare system.
Over the century and a half since the invention of modern, social welfare democracy, politicians have learned how to game the system.
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He would not dream of dismantling Germany's generous welfare system, as the Social Democrats have been suggesting.
Li, who wrote his doctoral thesis in economics, has detailed the critical nature of building a sounder social welfare system.
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And people at the bottom, the analyst told me, did not sink very much during the recession because Greece has a very large social welfare system.
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The government's Social Justice: Transforming Lives report promises to reverse the "couple penalty in the welfare system" and provide relationship support "acting early to keep families together".
In this grab bag of proscriptions and prescriptions, can we find a provision defining the size and scope of the central government authority in creating and maintaining a social welfare system?
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The Social Development Minister has warned that vulnerable people in NI must not suffer as a result of reforms to the welfare system.
Carlos Larrain, head of the conservative National Renewal party, said a Bachelet candidacy "will be healthy for the system" by giving voters a choice between the social welfare policies of her previous term and those of Pinera's right-of-center government.
Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling said the government was moving away from having a "passive" welfare system to an "active" one capable of responding to more flexible work patterns.
An old but creaking system of consensus, the lingering loyalty of bosses and employees to an unaffordable social-welfare model, and a web of constitutional checks and balances designed to prevent even the most fleeting thought of another tyranny, have all made it extraordinarily hard to carry out reform in Germany.
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