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Post 4: austerity woes

So then the global recession happens. You (Germany) want your money! Time is up, so pay up PIIGS countries!

Wait, you cant? YOU MUST PAY!

You see, its not your fault (Germany) that these Mediterranean, non-blonde peoples have such fiscal indiscipline! While they party and squander the money you loaned them, you were too busy with your smart, disciplined, hard working days! They had their OPA, siesta, vino and beer time, but now they have to face the music!

So you decide to have the EU intervene and bail them out. But you.... errrrr.... I mean, the EU ( TOTALLY not Germany... wink wink) will bail them out, but with strings attached... Enter austerity

You see, if they are going to get more money they better make use of it! So you will make sure that your Superior German ways are forced on them. Cut spending, cut social safety nets, cut pensions, and live precariously. SURE! That will make sure their economies get healthy again and they can pay you.

... only it doesnt. Turns out that people with no money to spend dont spend money (who would have thought!?) and thus their economy shrinks... now its going to be even harder to pay!

Then Greece in the midst of their crisis elect a bunch of neo Nazis called the Golden Dawn Party (lmao Nazis Greeks is an oxymoron, sort of like a 45 supporting Hispanic) who do Neo-Nazi stuff and makes people and markets even more twitchy.

Meanwhile, you continue to sneer at them... theyre so inferior! Theyre so undisciplined! They totally deserve it, you tell yourself, while you call your friend the EU and demand *gasp* more austerity

The end