Budget 2018: Hope must be the order of the day

During US president Franklin D Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address he told the American people that the only thing they had to fear was fear itself.

It was a cryptic remark that was not immediately understood but, in fact, his message was quite simple.

Speaking in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression that followed, he took the opportunity to remind his fellow citizens that their future and wellbeing lay largely in their own hands.