Daniel Gros: empires rarely succumb to outside attack, more often to internal dissent

[He3]

Well said - our sovereign right to destroy our economy on a regular basis must be protected at all costs!

At the expense of our right to fire those who exercise government power over us? No.

[Al.]

That's treason talk. No jack-boot sporting do-gooders are going to take away the right to crash our economy into the mountain once a generation

Well said - our sovereign right to destroy our economy on a regular basis must be protected at all costs

At the expense of our right to fire those who exercise government power over us? No.

What the West Krauts are leaving out of the picture is that our economy got destroyed by being dependent on the empire, not by being independent. Therefore their rhetoric doesn't even have a leg to stand on. Promulgating more of the problem as the cure is the worst kind of doublethink; it really is Nineteen Eighty-Four come alive.

[He3]

Stiglitz on civilian upset.

Stiglitz says European austerity plans are a 'suicide pact'