Estonia is a success story.

Drunk at 8am? Damn, dawg.

It's far easier to say "Dot, not Feather"... FWIW.

Suffice it to say I didn't make it into work today. I need to learn to deal with my problems in a more constructive way than being a drunk.

I believe it would be 6:00 am in his time zone.

Krieg and CS are in the same time zone.

LOLOLOLOL

This is the great "success story" of austerity from the right-wing echo chamber? Estonia hasn't even recovered to pre-crash levels yet.

Maybe everyone should collapse their economies to nothing next year so that we can have record growth the year after!

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/estonian-rhapsdoy/

Key graph:



So a deep depression like fall in the economy followed by a short but incomplete recovery, a recovery which will likely turn south again when Greece is forced out of the Euro and Spain's troubles continue on. But, hey, after a 20% fall in GDP you could even get a dead cat to bounce. Also, their recovery has been stalled for three quarters in a row.

Is this really what passes for success?

It isn't so long that they were calling Ireland a success, for this:



There isn't enough in the world.

The problem is Sandbagger likes to post articles like this but runs away and can't actually defend them when people start digging into the numbers. At least some of our conservative posters do defend their positions and know how to do so logically. Sandbagger though... Not so much.