> As is typical, decisions by politicians placed us in this situation. Decade after decade, 4-year term after 4-year term, the government has spent money it does not have. Be one political party or the other, it is the same thing.

As is typical, electors always voted for people making financially irresponsible promises, and not for people proposing to try and control the bills. Politicians are only to blame as much as voters.

Same thing happened in Italy after WW2, and we (the young) are suffering enormously for the debt contracted by previous generations.