It was not up to the local governments to "make soup out of chicken nails".

Here in Portugal, the Troika actually spent time (God knows how much) discussing if chocolate milk, something that unfortunately is a stable in children's diet, should be taxed at 13% or 23% VAT!!!
That is how deep they went in order to have control of the austerity measures.

This could have been a joke but it aint funny in my book.