It follows that the structural crisis slipped into a democratic - deficit crisis at European level. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
«We talk so much about shared sacrifice, and if you look at the pincers of wealth accretion for those at the top over the past 30 years, the genuine deficit crisis that has been created, not just the sort of crisis out of the crisis which is the recession, which is a revenue crisis, but at the long - term structural deficit, we've been squeezing government by dropping rates, which would have been fine if the economy had grown.» (nystateofpolitics.com)