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> It's like everybody all of the sudden will come to the conclusion that paying their mortgages is somehow a humiliating and oppressive endeavor. The better a
by tomp 11y ago
> It's like everybody all of the sudden will come to the conclusion that paying their mortgages is somehow a humiliating and oppressive endeavor.
The better analogy is the handling of "deadbeat dads" who don't pay child support. The government's response is to confiscate their drivers license. It doesn't require a genius that then they really won't be able to pay child support. At least in the case when non-payment was the result of unemployment or lower salary, which was undoubtedly a significant number of cases.
- mnglkhn2 11y agoI agree with your point. And it is true that the austerity measures have hit the most vulnerable in the society. But I found it problematic to maintain that the whole Greece is made of "deadbeat dads", my point being that the Greek elite is not shouldering their part of the recovery effort.
- tomp 11y ago> But I found it problematic to maintain that the whole Greece is made of "deadbeat dads", my point being that the Greek elite is not shouldering their part of the recovery effort. I didn't mean to imply that. The only similarity I was relying upon was non-payment of their legal obligations.