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Has anyone managed to get re-elected, survived to the end of their term, and NOT racked up government debt?
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I think it's a given that you will increase debt, even if it's only at the expense of loans taken out against US and/or USSR assistance. The country is cash-strapped, the social support structure is non-existent, and everybody on all sides wants results. You can buy results, but you have to sink into debt before you can lift the place out of it.
I did it by going moderately socialist on internal matters, and moderately rightwing on international ones. The latter kept my own rightwingers more or less happy, and brought in US help. The social stuff went to infrastructure (though health care or education could also have been chosen just as well). My only real problem was the burgeoning war with the right wing guerillas, but there doesn't seem to be any way to prevent that. When the military tears itself apart you can either go with the left or rightwing sections, and the other moves into the jungle. I suppose you could sell yourself so solidly into either the US or USSR camp as to get fighting aid, but by then, you'd probably have so badly annoyed the other political side at home that they would have toppled you.