To: National Public Radio News<\/p>\n
From: Mitch Berg, uppity peasant<\/p>\n
Re: Terminology<\/p>\n
Dear NPR:<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, while listening to one of your news programs, I caught a story about skilled workers emigrating from Portugal. <\/p>\n
Your story announced that the Portuguese economy was “recovering from austerity”<\/p>\n
Austerity was not the problem. Or, rather, austerity was, at most, a symptom; The disease was unsustainable government spending, that sapped the vitality of the private sector economy. <\/p>\n
Unrestrained spending on things like lavish pensions, cradle to grave welfare, a government workforce that displaces private enterprise, and yes, public broadcasting, committed governments to endless, crippling spending that, when the economy goes south, cannot be sustained. <\/p>\n
See that we don’t make this mistake again, shall we?<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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