Canada

I'm gonna guess your postal starts with a T, K, or S.

If so, you will have seen a really rough go after Mr Harper trashed a bunch of long-running programmes for short-term gain, and sold a lot of land rights to foreign interests. It was really bad Reaganomics.

Since then you will have seen a revolving door of similar leaders, inexplicably voted in despite a history of disastrous resource management.

I'm thankful that our federal leadership went from Absolute Worst Idea to Second Worst about a decade back. It's been rough, but our position through COVID was nowhere near as bad as it could have been.

Right now we're dealing with a real shortage of doctors, as many of them left due to harassment during COVID, and replacing them will take a decade or more. There's nothing we can do but suffer it.

But I agree we're not using our tax money enough on services. We're rebuilding infrastructure neglected for a while after maintenance that was rejected from so many bills. Our staffing is very low, and in trades important to keeping things running optimally. This downsizing scheme won't help. If we're going to rebuild things and repair our infrastructure, we need more people -- to add now and to maintain now and after.

But right now, we don't have a better option. We have a worse one, and let's avoid that. But let's get that better option in place before we challenge the status quo.