an issue for mainstream left parties to shy away from.

yes, that is a thorny one.

i guess a simple 'who's going to do the shitwork and feed in taxes to pay for your retirement' just ain't gonna fly...

or even 'they're people, and they deserve the same breaks' either.

stumped for words about that little issue, while stumping away anyway.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty