Myth-Making By the Left on Europe Continues  The Left continues
to push the myth that government "austerity"  (defined as still
running a massive deficit but running a slightly smaller massive
deficit) is somehow pushing Europe into a depression.  Well,
this myth-making worked with Hoover, who is generally thought to
have worsened the Depression through austerity despite the
reality that he substantially increased government spending.  It
is almost impossible to spot this mythical austerity beast in
action in these European countries.  Sure, they talk about
austerity, and deficit reduction, and spending increases, but if
such talk were reality we would have a balanced budget in this
country.  If one looks at actual government spending in European
nations, its impossible to find a substantial decline.  Perhaps
they are talking about tax increases, which I would oppose and
have been occurring, but I doubt the Left is complaining about
tax increases.  Seriously, I would post the chart showing the
spending declin