I truly don't understand what's going on in Greece. You can demonstrate all you want in the streets, but two and two still add up to four, and if you don't have money to pay for something, it's just not there.
I do think Canada is better positioned at present than most OECD countries, because we've had, actually, fairly good government from both the Conservatives and the Liberals in terms of keeping the books relatively in balance. I think that has positioned us so that we can run a deficit now when the economy is in recession and keep our economy going. But we do have to worry about these issues. These are long-term economic issues.
Keynes certainly believed that the economy should be pushed along by government borrowing and government spending, but only during a recession, only briefly, and he thought that when the economy picked up again, the government should pay off its debts, and over time, the government should, on average, run a zero deficit.
People like to quote Keynes on how government should run a deficit. They don't like to quote him on how government should pay off the deficit as soon as it can afterwards.
I do think what you say also relates to the question that was raised by Monsieur Bouchard. What government needs to do, I think, is attend to the tax base. We need to make an economy where people make lots of money and companies make lots of money so the government can collect lots of taxes to do all the things we want the government to do. We can't impose government mandates for spending and for entitlements without worrying about where the money comes from, and that means we have to worry about having enough taxpayers out there who are making enough money that we can tax them to pay for all the things we want to do. That's where I think the Greeks kind of missed the boat.