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Typo posted:But that's literally what it means. Oh boy, are we at the stage where we all post definitions to suit our fancy? quote:A state of reduced spending and increased frugality in the financial sector. Austerity measures generally refer to the measures taken by governments to reduce expenditures in an attempt to shrink their growing budget deficits. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/austerity.asp quote:Difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce a budget deficit, especially by reducing public expenditure: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/austerity quote:an economic policy by which a government reduces the amount of money it spends by a large amount http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/austerity All those definitions are as good as the "financial times lexicon" definition sourced by Wikipedia. But I'm sure when the OP was asking about austerity he was wondering why massive tax increases on the wealthy in Greece haven't worked, right? After all, the line of questions he asked as follow up directly includes: quote:could austeriry work if they cut some spending but left other spending unchanged or larger It's pretty ironic for you to say "Sorry that words don't mean what you hope they mean." though. Maybe "ironic" isn't the right word, let me grab a dictionary and find a better one: quote:"(typically of a man or his behavior) obnoxious or contemptible." Ahh there we go. It's pretty douchey for you to say that. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Typo posted:Notice how those definitions states that "reduce a budget deficit, especially by reducing expenditures" instead of "reduce a budget deficit by reducing expenditures". You realize I'm mocking you for cherry picking definitions to make a worthless argument, and as a response you cherry picked not only from the definitions I linked but also went out to again cherry pick a definition, right? I'm concerned you may have missed it because I didn't spell it out plainly enough. I'll try again. Your posts in this thread thus far are obnoxious horseshit, and I'd much prefer to read posts by people who actually have some concept of modern economy who are willing to put in effort to present meaningful data and information about austerity as a response to the Great Recession and not be bombarded by lovely one-liners from you and a handful of other posters about "yeah but what about tax increases and that's not even the definition of austerity I meant, mine is much more broad than the thread discussion  ". My assumption is I'm not the only one so I hope if I cut your poo poo to the chase we won't slog through a dozen pages of your poo poo, but damned if I'm not a hypocrite for contributing to this shitheap pile more than two posts to explain to you how worthless your posts have been thus far, so I won't extend it out further. Hopefully that's clear enough, maybe you'll contribute something meaningful to the topic.e: Typo posted:oh D&D how I've missed you Apparently not, as now it's "lol d&d amirite". Can't fault a guy for trying I guess. 
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