If you want to improve the finances of the state, you will have to take unpopular measures, I read somewhere. Really? Would it really be so unpopular to force the state energy companies to supply their own people and businesses with very cheap energy? Would it really be so unpopular to support domestic companies? Would it really be so unpopular to rebuild domestic industry? It might be unpopular enough to teach math and physics instead of gender, but most of those measures would be met with mass support.
And without such measures, it is fundamentally impossible to repair the state finances. Yes, there was a school a generation ago that argued that government finances could be improved by cutting health and social spending. However, the results achieved by the followers of that school have been so disastrous that only a blinded zealot can continue to recommend it.