The main solution to our drop in living standards is to spend a lot more in government handouts.
That is one likely impression left by our election debates.
Some demand instead a return to the fundamental reforms of 1981-96, which built our current and now lagging prosperity.
Those earlier fundamental reforms were forced on the unwilling by economic crisis.
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