Watching Montoro on television brings back memories of one of the worst times we've ever lived through, that of the savage cuts that further aggravated the economic crisis. We will forever associate the Great Recession of 2008 with the relentless measures taken by governments to supposedly mitigate its effects. A prescription that not only failed to cure a sick economic system, but almost finished it off. The fallacious mantra they repeatedly told us was the only possible remedy still resonates in our memories: either austerity, or catastrophe, chaos, and disaster. But for many workers, many families, and many small and medium-sized businesses, what happened was precisely the annihilation of their livelihoods. There are those who never raised their heads again, and that widespread feeling of loss and helplessness began at that moment. Companies that worked for the public sector and went bankrupt, others that lived on debt and had to fold when the banks turned off the tap that seemed destined to flow forever. The blame for the collapse of that system, in which the economy grew thanks to massive credit doping, was placed on the very people who were the victims.