IMF Shadow Looms as Irish Sacrifice to Avoid Bailout – Bloomberg.
The Irish see cleaning up their own mess as a necessary price of existing as an independent nation.
They’re just saying no to a bailout from the European union and the international monetary fund.
Pay cuts for public servants, and welfare recipients are the order of the day, as well as downward economic circumstances for those in the private sector.
Interviewees in the above article are seeing their sacrifices as an expression of patriotism.
Don’t you wish our U.S. lefties felt the same?
