there are two countervailing forces to them "learning their lesson" : memory is short and this fact that you allude >But I'd be a fool to believe that you can

there are two countervailing forces to them "learning their lesson" : memory is short and this fact that you allude >But I'd be a fool to believe that you can take budgetary changes and trailing economic results in isolation. The system is far more complicated than that. is exploited by those with a vested interest to place blame elsewhere