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Austerity is miserable. It does not win elections. Even if a party bit the bullet, locked in and fixed this mess, they would be handing both the credit for any success and at least the best few future elections to the other party. Our system seems designed to fail from some angles.

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It is a similar thing with climate change to be honest. We have been spending at a pace we cannot keep up with. In my mind, of course we won't have the same luxuries as our parents, they bought that life with CO2 debt.