Tous les intervenants pensaient que ce serait une potion miracle et que des investissements massifs permet traient de régler tous les problèmes alors que le régime de retraite s'effondrait, le régime d'assurance-chômage tel que nous le connaissons était inexistant et le reste de l'infrastructure sociale, comme le système de santé, s'écroulait.
Everyone thought it was going to be a quick fix, and everyone tried to get investment pumped in there and thought that that would do everything. At the same time as that was happening or being encouraged, the pension system was falling apart, unemployment insurance as we know it was non-existent, and the other social infrastructure, such as the health system, was falling apart.