This is were I get upset with politics in our country. They act as if universal education and other universal programs that they love to promote here in Canada have no consequences. 

An extreme temporary raise in oil prices allowed them to keep taking on more government debt till the system broke. No different than Greece taking on non-stop debt with no way of paying it back. Regardless of socialist or capitalist systems, if you borrow and have no real plan to pay back expect at some point a breakdown of your system. How harsh depends on how quickly our governments change action.

We should have proper government programs to help for the good of our nation but we are no different than Venezuela at the moment with non-stop spending. Our saving grace is our continued growth, should that stop like it did in Venezuela our programs fail. We already have a current government that has been flirting with changing our election system to allow them to stay in power. This can happen here.