official admits austerity is harming greece pole thompson head of i.m.f. mission in greece concedes that social tolerance and political support have their limitations in an extraordinary departure from the script to the i.m.f. as follow to date the danish the official who is also in charge of the i.m.f. program in place in portugal acknowledged there was a limit to wall what society would endure he said quote while greece certainly will have to continue to reduce its fiscal deficit so we want to ensure considering that social tolerance and political support have their limitations that we strike the right balance between fiscal consolidation and reforms as such the i.m.f. had cautioned against an excessive pace official of fiscal reduction so this goes with your theme that the u.s. and and germany are at the heart of this global neo feudal system when it was when these austerity programs were imposed far away down the latin america or asia the germans and the americans felt and the french felt safe issuing austerity measures because they weren't anywhere near the p