Whatever “pain” comes now from fiscal/economic sanity is less than the pain later that comes from putting off the reckoning. You obviously prefer less pain now and more pain later. I am sorry about that. Such people will always vote for an apparent benefit today regardless of the obvious and unavoidable much weightier cost tomorrow or next week. A large portion of humanity cannot even imagine tomorrow. For them everything after they go to sleep tonight is mythical and irrelevant.