Additionally, many policymakers within the country have rallied against further stimulus measures that they believe could cause debtor nations to become complacent.
During this time, debt agreements were primarily simple, straightforward debt restructuring where repayment plans were established with debtor nations.
Our five month long negotiation was a contest between the right of creditors to govern a debtor nation and the democratic right of that nation's citizens to be self- governed.
We will not survive if our benevolence allows the treasury to not only be empty -- but to have us be a debtor nation greater than we have ever been before.