No government in power will want to responsible for choosing the hard road necessary for the good of future citizens until they have exhausted every magic trick in the bag( no options left) and even then, politicians want their cake and eat it too (pension for life) so this could go on for quite some time.
Government's have the capacity to avoid the "hard road". It's commitment that they're lacking as parties on all sides have spent decades promoting themselves fallaciously as the "Party of fiscal responsibility or restraint". As a result the electorate as a whole expects and demands government fiscal restraint because on the whole voters don't know any better when in fact it's actually the problem.







