And collectively, all the adult fishes refused to cut back, got obese as hell and decided that rather than cutting back and living withing their means, that they would continue their obese lifestyles by selling the future earnings of their little fishes into slavery.
They decided also to have fish wars in ponds all across the world. Ponds that had zero bearing on the outcome of their pond. They were cool wars using high fish tech, where a fish in the home pond would shoot from the sky a finned terrorist riding the back of a starfish. They were very patriotic fish in that pond that supported their fish troops, except when it came for paying for the fish wars. They decided that their children should be paying for the fish wars so they put that on the little fishy credit card too.
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Dear Euroland: Relax, Germany has a plan for your money!Political Capital Defined: We are out of money but will tax our citizens for whatever it takes to "SAVE" the Euro.