The countries that have avoided these errors have been called upon to provide financial assistance on a rather large scale to five stressed countries. The assistance being granted is in the form of loans, but even so some taxpayers and electorates may fear that their savings are being threatened by being lent where markets have been reluctant to go.
The fear seems to be that the system is having the effect of spreading the cost of policy errors in some countries to the taxpayers of countries that maintained discipline. This fear has been influencing the design of crisis management measures.