For businesses which play high-risk, high-profit games, there is nothing unusual about borrowing to tide over cash flow problems. But for the government, which will never realize high profits, the only source of funds to pay off the debt is the general populace.
對高風險、高利潤的企業界來說，借支周轉，不足為奇，然而對不可能有高利潤報酬的政府施政來說，目前的債務，將來可是要靠全體國民來還清的。