It is as if the prevailing wisdom dictates that since there is no path of painless change, it matters not how painful the process may be. But it does (...)

Original Toronto Star caption: It is as if the prevailing wisdom dictates that since there is no path of painless change, it matters not how painful the process may be. But it does matter. It matters to the human element which in the final analysis is in fact the target of the adjustment program. We do not adjust economic systems. We adjust the lives of people who make these systems work. Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga on the economic restructuring of his Third World debtor nation.