That's nice rhetoric, but the fact is that there's no us and them, there's only us. We've had a monetary union for about a decade now - we opted-in on sharing e

That's nice rhetoric, but the fact is that there's no us and them, there's only us. We've had a monetary union for about a decade now - we opted-in on sharing each others pains. Krugman thinks the euro was a bad idea to begin with, you might find that interesting to read: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/the-spanish-tragedy/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/the-spanish-trag...