Public opinion on defict reduction

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Cutting spending sounds good till the moment you start thinking what exactly to cut.

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Exactly. Voters are stupid. They want and expect a magic solution to all economic woes which would not entail any cuts to them and would allow them to keep on spendin' on credit like crazy. When they find out that in the real world it doesn't work like that, they get pissed and blame the government.