> there is no decline of the Welfare State. There is a kind of
> holding pattern since 1980, but no decline unless you fixate
> on some privatizations of things that don't necessarily need
> to be public in the first place (though I would say the
> privatizations were probably not necessary either).
>
> mbs
>
Its not smaller, it just services fewer people? Unless you mean
things like farm subsidies and the like.
DB