All Ruined in Ten Years?: Public Debt: The Last Chance, Jacques Attali

"Are we about to be ruined? Are we ruining our children? Never, except in times of total war, has the public debt of the world's most powerful countries been so high. Never have the dangers it has posed to their standard of living and political system been so threatening. In France, in particular, if the rise in public debt is not stopped as soon as possible, the next President of the Republic will be able to do nothing else, throughout his term, but pursue an austerity policy; and the next decade will force each citizen, every day, to suffer the consequences of the follies of the one that is ending. How can we prevent future generations from having to pay dearly for the cynicism of our contemporaries?"