Can’t invest without spending money. And boy do we need to fix a lot of stuff…

Economists have been warning about this before the election. The parties that got the most votes had terrible household deficits in their budget plans that were utterly unrealistic. Merz already paddled back to an extreme degree (even so much that people call him a fraud for making promises that he couldn‘t realistically uphold) but even then conservative policies were doomed from the start.