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"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."

Daniel Hannan, British Politician

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"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."

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"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child."

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