You might want to check the timeline again, and again, check Germany's major trading partners to see whether they all went deeply into debt.
There is something about the French that wants to do the minimum necessary possible. If I had to make a list of countries that were willing to stick their nose to the grindstone to get themselves out of trouble, France would be near the bottom of the list. Of course, compared to Greece they're better. But who isn't.
Really?
So you disagree with me and the Fraiser Institute right.
In the case of any non-G20 nation, that is more true than not. Once you start dealing with G-20(ish) sized economies defaulting poses global risk. The entire European mess rests at the feet of the 'austerity hawks' who demanded the Greece pay it's debts. If the 'Euro powers' had either:
They work alot less hours. A month to five weeks off on vacation. Good for them. Plus until recently they expected to retire at 60, now 62, which they fought tooth and nail over. It isn't sustainable, but as I said they're still better off than Greece, if that's anything to brag about.
yeah thats a good point which people forget these days, mainstream conservatives are just as bad as liberals. sarkozy wasnt a real conservative, france's crisis got out of control under his watch. look at bush ( mind you obama is outspending him huge), stephen harpers govt are also big spenders contrary to conventional wisdom.
To be blunt, they're worse. They are consistently worse than both liberal or social democratic alternatives. This has been shown time and again with actual numbers that you can google at your leisure. Particularly in the Anglo world. Conservative budgets are deliberately designed to be worse. The conservatives who aren't Kool-aid drinkers must know full well that Conservative parties deliberately build structural deficits to force cuts, privatizations, and to tie the next guys' hands. This is governing in bad faith, but there is 30 years of evidence to back it up. It's either that, or they are simply the least competent economic managers possible. One or the other.
I can't remember which gov't it was - I believe it was the party that introduced government run health care in Saskatchewan (Tommy Douglas??) - they always managed to balance the books.
How so? Not that I'm expecting an answer from you.
That was also the time when doctors did not belong to a union, and ONLY charged what a person was capable of paying or nothing at all.
I think you should stick to watching reruns of "To Kill a Mockingbird" if you think docs ONLY charged what people could afford or nothing at all.
Glad you think so. They may have done that for basic medicine, but the major illnesses and injuries caused real grief. Your so called doctors union is being fucked by the Liberals in Ontario just like before. Your doctors in the recent past were told by bureaucrats that they can only see and treat so many patients a year, even though they are one of the best in their fields or are in areas where they are the only one who does what they do and saw many more as a result. Now they are being told what they can charge, regardless of cost.
