Wants, needs and government

As most of us know too well, there's a huge difference between “wants” and “needs.” For example, I want a Lamborghini, but I simply need some mean of transportation.

Political events and social news around the world fall into that same category. For instance, it would seem that French people want to work less, but their country needs to pay for retirement and needs to keep its deficit under control. In America, we the people, want to pay even less taxes, but need to balance our books, etc. I could go on and on with that subtle difference between “wants” and “needs” but suffice to say that next time, we WANT our government to do certain things, let's ask ourselves first, what we really NEED and go with the later...