CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Romanian iReporter chemycala says that while Romania experienced its own financial crisis, along with most of Europe, it responded in its own way - reducing public salaries and raising sales taxes. "Romanians understood the urge to sacrifice and did not go so much in the streets to protest against austerity," she said. She does not have a problem with paying sufficient tax so long as the government's system is efficient in how it spends it. "I am careful with my family budget so why shouldn't someone that I elect be also careful with the money they borrow in my name?" she said. She did, however, feel angry that the US and other nations used public money to bail out banks. "As a former communist country Romania was told during the 1990s by the IMF and World Bank and Western governments that it was forbidden to save its industry and companies with public money, that we had to 'reform' and 'restructure' the system in the name of free market values and capitalism," she said. "We had to close hundreds of factories, and my hometown was one of the heaviest hit from this point of view, tens of thousands jobs were gone. I still believe in those ideas but now I felt betrayed, especially when I see that when it is happening to other countries."
- sarahbrowngb, CNN iReport producer