Screwing the country and its future? Not when there's evidence that manageable deficits are sometimes good things and not when some kinds of taxes are good things. Students get taught critical thinking  these days and many would be quick to point out that you're generalizing in your comment and not being specific. They might also point out that, for example in Alberta, Conservatives (not Liberals) were in power 44 years, during which time math curriculum changed a great deal, to what it is there today, so, um, simple math is only the beginning of good, political analysis.