Nationalism is often fed by a sense of impotence.

The idea alone is terrifying and debilitating.

FBiH Law on Pension and Disability Insurance

Eventually, the plan threw the country on its back.

But we must be wary of deficit fetishism.

Living in Barbados expressed a sense of helplessness in the face of catastrophe

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The Malagasy population feels completely helpless in the face of this wave of children kidnapping.

I think I'm probably not alone when I say I felt completely helpless.

Beijing authorities in Hong Kong, meanwhile, felt unable not to comment on the situation.

This feeling of ignorance coupled with powerlessness is not entirely the European Parliament s fault.

India and the world watch such events in horror, unable to decide how to respond.

US foreign policy is so ineffective because it has been taken over by the military.

Egyptian Nariman wrote After months of feeling helpless, one day in Gaza has given me back the sense of needing to believe in the impossible.

The Social Security deficit pales by comparison with the deficits created by Bush s huge tax cuts for upper income Americans or in comparison with the deficit in Medicare, which provides health care for the aged.

The result in Japan would then be rising real interest rates as the low private saving rate runs head on into large fiscal deficits.

Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.

The Thais flew consular and embassy officials to the affected areas, aware of the sense of helplessness among those stranded far from home.

It is an economy with huge unmet needs and yet vast idle resources.

Deficit fetishism never makes sense the national debt is only one side of a country s balance sheet.

Macroeconomic policy can try to compensate through deficit spending and very low interest rates.

Moreover, low self esteem exacerbates a feeling of helplessness and lack of control.

Migrant workers still feel unable truly to integrate into cities, because their social safety net remains anchored to their rural origins.

But imagine if one day a host of key communications satellites were incapacitated, or the databases of major financial systems were erased.

Twin current account and fiscal deficits (and or currency and debt maturity mismatches) were the rule.

But the evidence on whether additional deficit financed spending would quickly revive economic growth is mixed.

After the subprime crisis erupted, mortgage and consumer debt was paid down by households either with their savings or by default.

In an era of outsize government deficits and subpar household saving, that may be America s toughest challenge of all.

Disabled soldiers also will cost a lot of money, even if the Pentagon won t automatically pay everything for them.

But the military pays disability benefits that are markedly lower than the value of lost earnings.

It is not confidence that dominates Davos 2008, but rather a sense of impotence, if not bewilderment, at the world s growing complexity.

In exceptional cases, a state may run a deficit, but its cumulative volume must not exceed 1.5 of GDP.

But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old fashioned deficit spending.

In countries where governments are deficient, there are often alternative ways of providing assistance, including NGO s.

Each year nearly 1.2 million people die and millions more are injured or disabled as a result of road crashes, mostly in urban areas of developing countries.

But actually, I mean, this feeling of helplessness comes in because most Americans actually feel that oil prices are the result of a conspiracy, not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market.

Food security arguments resonate well in Japan, owing to memories of shortages during World War II and its aftermath.

But those now demanding further deficit financed stimulus must confront considerable evidence that an overhang of public debt impedes growth for a long time.

Gardner also determined from his early experiences that alcoholism, domestic abuse, child abuse, illiteracy, fear and powerlessness were all things he wanted to avoid in the future.

The combination of the two is, I believe, behind the feeling of powerlessness that is now affecting the whole of Europe, and that may appear to characterize social democracy in particular.

Simply put, the global economy has at its center a dysfunctional political regime that generates recurrent threats of default on the world s major reserve asset.

In Greece, the problem is with sovereign deficits (much of it long concealed), while the problem in Asia was unmonitored private sector debt.

Regarding the external balance of payments deficit, which stood at about 5 billion five years ago, we reduced our expenditures that was mainly on debt servicing.

His conclusion was amongst others that both children and parents (and in all likelihood the school) experience conflicts of loyalty, pressure to conform and acquiesce to the norm, and for some of the children bullying and a feeling of helplessness.

In an optimal world, the surpluses of countries pursuing export led growth would be willingly matched by the deficits of those pursuing debt led growth.