Re:Why the young should welcome austerity
by dsr_ on Sunday June 17, 2012 @07:24PM
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Austerity doesn't seem to be solving the problem. Stimulus sort of helped, but was applied at the top. Trickle-down is known to not work very well...
Major governments will either find something that works, or we are likely to see repeats of the French Revolution translated to modern times and idioms.
Re:Why the young should welcome austerity
by easp on Sunday June 17, 2012 @11:32PM
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I wouldn't call the stimulus a top-down approach, and I thin it's greatest "failing" was that there wasn't enough of it, first because no one really appreciated how bad things were, and then because one party decided to put party before country...
Major governments will either find something that works, or we are likely to see repeats of the French Revolution translated to modern times and idioms.