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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > How does austerity work
 
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Smudgie Buggler
Feb 27, 2005

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KingFisher posted:

The greek wouldn't be in this condition if they hadn't borrowed the money.
True, but they would also have been in roughly the same situation they are now fifteen years earlier if they hadn't.

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The Germans didn't make them borrow those funds, the greek did this to themselves through the democratic process.

False.

KingFisher posted:

It is wildly unacceptable that the greek demand a permanent system of transfers within the EU/EZ, the greek simply must learn to meet their own needs.

Do you also support the fiscal abandonment of the South by the United States Federal Government?

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Smudgie Buggler
Feb 27, 2005

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KingFisher posted:

If the Europeans wanted a transfer union and federal state then they are free to have one, since they have chosen not to have a fiscal, monetary, and political union it would behoove each state to behave accordingly.
Yeah man I'm 100% confident that Californians and New Yorkers would vote to keep propping up a mendicant Mississippi if it was taken to a plebiscite.

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It would be just as foolish for the American south to behave like greek if it was in the same situation.

It was in a much worse position and was appropriately rescued by a non-psychopathic Union. Multiple times.

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