Follow this link to the New York Times piece by Paul Krugman.

In the article he mentions several policies that Germany has used to minimize the job losses in this recession.

Follow this link to the discussion of his article in Huffington Post.

There are pros and cons on Krugman’s suggestion, but the point is that there are more things that can be tried that have not yet been tried.

A look at the later post, Eurocrisis: “Democracy is Not a Given”, may have you rethinking what you read here.