"The crisis that we are facing is a crisis of confidence, and this confidence cannot be gained if we postpone the tackling of the root causes of the crisis," Mr Weidmann said, referring to France, Italy and Cyprus as countries that still face tough financial situations.
After all, many of the president's supporters are convinced either that global warming is scientific rubbish or at least that they want to postpone costly efforts to tackle it.
The message is very disturbing as the clones he mentions are not resistant; they're at most less susceptible and hence only postpone the problem, but don't tackle it fundamentally," he says.
The Tories have been talking up the threat of a hung parliament leaving the economy in a quandary by postponing essential work to tackle the deficit, suggesting it might necessitate intervention by the IMF.
Netanyahu announced a taskforce to examine ways of tackling the cost of living, and is considering postponing the parliamentary recess, due to begin at the end of this week.
And surely playwrights courageous enough to tackle such controversial material deserve a theater courageous enough not to postpone their play when it proves to be precisely as controversial as they must have known it would be when they accepted it.
We see this all the time as people tackle imminent and trivial jobs on their to-do list but postpone distant but important decisions.
(And indeed, by postponing any real action to tackle the deficit, Republicans now get the chance to say they voted for a massive tax cut, rather than voting to increase taxes).
