Because immediate severe austerity would be terrible for the economy and for unemployment, the president needs to gain support for including job-creation measures in an overall fiscal reform package.
DPAC was formed by a group of people with a variety of disabilities in the immediate aftermath of mass protests at the Conservative party conference in October 2010, amid warnings that the impact of austerity would be catastrophic for people with physical or mental impairments.
A sudden fit of fiscal austerity would be a mistake.
Fiscal austerity would be grim, he warned, but the pain would be spread evenly.
Mr. Samaras insisted that this round of austerity would be the last.
And we said that fiscal austerity would be contractionary, not expansionary.
Economists feared the immediate consequences would be a spike in already-double digit inflation and more austerity in a troubled economy.
"Immediate arbitration would be very disruptive.
The most immediate change would be safety.
Such an austerity program would be worse than that demanded by the troika.
