In response, the police staged an armed coup which was put down by the military. These are the kinds of things that can happen when you promise people things and then come back later and tell them you were just kidding about those fairy tale promises…
When you read in media stories that there is unrest regarding “austerity measures” that is just doubletalk for “the government made unkeepable promises which it is now admitting were a pack of lies”. No, the government should not lie to people. No, people should not blindly believe what governments tell them, especially if the basic math doesn’t add up. There was fault on both sides. It’s a simple interaction between a con man and a victim who was willingly conned because the good sounding promises played to his greed.
