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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

I think governments can't do much.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.