Government spending is ruining the economy, debasing the currency, forcing the next generation to pay huge interest payments and is turning us into a second rate economic power.
The banking crisis also laid low the Icelandic currency, forcing the government to ask the International Monetary Fund and its European neighbours for billions of dollars of aid.
Manufacturers were unable to make things cheaply, reliably or efficiently enough against the headwind of a high-value currency, forcing many to give up.
It was partly economic, in that poverty and a worthless currency forced East Germans to stay at home and cultivate a local musical culture.
Should the propping up of the single currency force a hefty treaty change at some future date, then Britain can be expected to make some demands in exchange for nodding the treaty through.
Solidarity with Greece means everyone, in and outside the single currency, forcing this conversation: the country is being sacrificed to maintain a set of delusions that enfeebles us all.
Banks allow only small withdrawals of the almost-worthless currency, forcing many to spend hours in line and to go from one branch to another just to get the cash they need.
But the real push came with the wave of mergers and acquisitions encouraged by the single European currency, forcing European governments to sell nationalized industries to meet budgetary requirements and leading to the burgeoning of capital markets to finance increased corporate financial activity.
But Beijing has not shied away from ruffling U.S. feathers with recent talk of replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency, forcing President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to defend the dollar this week.
Robert Mugabe's thugocracy has attacked inflation by browbeating merchants into slashing prices, jailing anyone caught converting the Zimbabwean dollar into a foreign currency, forcing businesses to deposit cash into banks daily and even restricting the purchase of livestock, since many citizens consider cattle a safer bet than a savings account.
