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The Greek Crisis, Angela Merkel and the Swabian Housewife : In the Long Run, You Can't Live Beyond Your Means

By Andis Kaulins

Katrin Bennhold at the New York Times has a thoughtful article at In Greek Crisis, a Window to the German Psyche - NYTimes.com which she opens as follows:

"A few weeks after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and the world plunged into a financial crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany offered some common-sense advice to reckless bankers, indebted consumers and profligate governments.

?One should simply have asked a Swabian housewife,? Mrs. Merkel said during an address to fellow Christian Democrats in December 2008 in the southwest German region of Swabia, hub of the Protestant work ethic. ?She would have told us her worldly wisdom: in the long run, you can?t live beyond your means.? "

Read it all.

Hat tip to CaryGEE.

Full post as published by LawPundit on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).