> The U.S. citizens also needs to experience what austerity
> is like for real so that the experience will turn them
> against the Republican austerity mongers.
The US has already been experiencing significant austerity in the last two years.
Maybe they just don't realize it; it's happened before.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/1937-2/
[ excellent charts in original ]
Summary:
"So we haven't seen spending cuts like this since the
demobilization that followed the Korean War."
/jordan