If you want to understand the government’s economic policy, don’t go away. It works like this: your GPS says you are 200km from your destination. An hour later, you are 300km away, so you drive more resolutely. After the next hour, you have 400km to go.You are bewildered. You blame uncooperative rich whites in big cars. You wave your fist, fasten your seatbelt, spew racist slurs and accelerate.

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