Sooo, what are they gonna do??-----German Chancellor Admits That Welfare State Is Running Out of Other People's Money - Stephen Kruiser

The biggest, boldest lie of every welfare state is that the goods and services it is providing to its citizens are "free." 

This is from a Wall Street Journal Opinion piece titled "A Politician Speaks the Unspeakable":

...Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, said at a Christian Democratic Union conference on Saturday that “the welfare state that we have today can no longer be financed with what we produce in the economy.”...

• Merz is a center-right politician, so it's not odd that he believes this; it's just a surprise that he is saying it...