Your aging parent(s) have the potential to suck you into a financial hole but you avoid having an open, non-confrontational discussion (possibly with a professional present) to address these issues.
"Someone who applies for a bank-teller position might also be a customer or potential customer, and we were letting those applications fall into a black hole, " she says.
Our potential growth rate will be even slower, unemployment will be higher, and the structural hole in the public finances will be even larger, requiring the government to impose even greater tax rises and spending cuts to bring the national debt onto a downward path.