The mortgages themselves are marvels of financial engineering (see "Mortgaging The Future"), designed to protect borrowers and lenders against high inflation.

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If we can't get the deficit under control and begin paying back this debt, we will be mortgaging the future of our children and grandchildren.

BBC: Ex-Archbishop Carey attacks bishops over benefit cap

Every week this Government is in power the mortgaging of the future gets greater.

BBC: In full: Cameron's economy speech

Along the way, they accuse the administration of both mortgaging the nation's future and short-changing the troops and of deceiving the public and deluding itself.

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The trade unions believe that the government is mortgaging its future by giving private companies the right to run hospitals, schools and roads for periods of up to 30 years in return for a fixed yearly payment.

BBC: Unions to tackle Blair on privatisation

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.

CNN: Inaugural Address