YOU MAY SAY I HAVE TO BE WRONG SOMEHOW BUT IF WHAT LIEO PUNDITS HAVE ALWAYS SAID WERE TRUE

then we would all be comfortably retired on the Costa Brava, or wherever, that Western prosperous persons should have retired to by now.

But that has not been the case....

So, what you were told about the inherent prosperity of the LIEO, for you, was not at all true after all.

So maybe you will admit that perhaps I have not been so wrong.