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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Without looking at the particulars...


The voters... and themselves... and various rich people... (I'm from a country that also insists on spending money it doesn't have. Oddly enough, I seldom see any of it. Members of the government or parliament, big businesses board members and so on don't have that problem, though.)


Well, yes. "The voters" didn't decide to buy loan equities, or feed speculative bubbles, or make various other bad financial decisions. Admittedly, they didn't precisely say no either, or even kept themselves very informed. And yeah, they did always demand more money, jobs, services...

don't the French have 3 months pay vacation every year?