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Originally Posted by KSGregman
and NO ONE is willing to do hard things now to prevent being forced into doing DEVASTATING things (such as those happening in Greece/Spain and soon to be Italy) in the future.
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I wouldn't classify the so-called austerity measures as devastating things. To be fair, I haven't been able to find a detailed list of these measures. All of the articles I've read on the subject have been frustratingly vague.
But, from what I can gather, they've cut pay to government workers and cut social services. If they are like some other European countries, and "social services" include paid vacations and old-man-balls low working hours, the "austerity measures" they're seeing wouldn't phase the average American. Like Paul pointed out, a nap-time culture doesn't make for a strong economy to begin with.
Then you have this mindset:
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“It’s against the dignity of these people to have to look for food in this manner,” said Eduardo Berloso, an official in Girona, the city that padlocked its supermarket trash bins.
Mr. Berloso proposed the measure last month after hearing from social workers and seeing for himself one evening “the humiliating gesture of a mother with children looking around before digging into the bins.”
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So, to protect the
dignity of his fellow Spaniards, he'll lock the trash bins and let them starve to death. Brilliant.