“..You better keep the beer coming bartender, or I won’t pay my tab!!!”
What an argument.
Now how can anyone that is described a "conservative" be a proponent of the social market economy? Must mean some new definition of "conservative".
Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Nicolas Sarkozy, and Holland's Mark Rutte are all conservatives
Merkel and Sarkozy maybe would have been conservative in the 1700s when Empire Kingdoms were the norm and the idea of democracy and free markets were liberal...
Failure is an option, especially when its easy. But they are messed up either way. Austerity will crash the economy , but debt default will keep anyone from buying their debt, and they will have to balance their budgets anyway. I guess this way they can be smug about it.
The Welfare State System will defeat the monetary system. With wealth destroyed all will need the government to provide for them and in return the government will tell them what they can and cannot do.