Tomorrow, yeeha, everything will be A-​​OK! All the experts point to it and make us see that the end of the tunnel is in sight, while we tread the shining path that leads us into the valley of glorious tomorrows. We’re about to get out of the rut as we can see the sun shining at the end of the tunnel (did I use that image before? Oh, it must be due to an excess of joy on my part). Unem­ployment will stop being endemic and will be merely residual. The crisis will stop being sys­temic and will be but a bad memory.

Tomorrow will be better than today.

Tomorrow, taxes will be free, and the deficit will be drowned in a wave of ease. Tomorrow, poor people will be rich, we’ll enjoy without restraints, and we’ll get dividends from our past sac­ri­fices. Tomorrow, we shall be paid in stock-​​options and retire with hedge-​​funds in our pockets. Tomorrow, the police will demon­strate on our side. Tomorrow, new tech­no­logies will be ever newer and bio-​​technologies will be ever more "bio".

Tomorrow she shall have a seat at the party of growth.

Tomorrow, we shall be World Cup Cham­pions every year, we shall bask under the eclipse every month, and it will be the Millenium’s eve party every evening.

Ok, maybe "tomorrow" won’t be the day after today. "Tomorrow" might be at the end of the year or in ten years. And "Tomorrow" won’t come every­where and at the same time for everyone either.

It might be even more com­plicated than that. Today, we have to make the very last sac­ri­fices needed in order for things to get better tomorrow. Things should pick up tomorrow: expect sac­ri­fices to "help" things pick up, to welcome the return of glorious days (had they ever come before?)

So, the day after tomorrow, yeeha, things will be A-​​OK! Oh, not so fast: a few more last sac­ri­fices to help growth. But then, the day after the day after tomorrow we shall reap the fruits of growth, right? Well, not exactly; if we go on like that, there’ll be too much inflation! Clearly, if we do not make sac­ri­fices the day after the day after tomorrow, we could put the growth of the fol­lowing days in jeopardy (you bunch of irre­sponsible people!)

Still, one thing is for sure: tomorrow is ahead of us, and we just need to keep heading that way.

Tomorrow’s the day we get free lunches.