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Between now and next April, four members of the European Union (EU) will hold national elections that will go a long ways toward determining whether the 28-member organization will continue to follow an economic model that has generated vast wealth for a few, widespread misery for many, and growing income inequality. The choice is between an almost religious focus on the “sin” of debt and the “redemption” of austerity, as opposed to a re-calibration toward economic stimulus and social welfare. -more-

It is a part of human nature that people require sources of fulfillment. Most people in the U.S. are taught that we need to go to school, get a good career, own a house, marry a sweetheart and produce offspring…(modern day addendum; and then get divorced, then remarried.) -more-