Freezing salaries lesser of two evils Posted on April 14, 2009 by Your Financial FactSheet Jamaica Observer: “Freezing salaries lesser of two evils” In the Observer of March 31 this column posited that the only way out of the economic problems, some of which were brought on by the global financial crisis,is less spending – reducing fiscal deficit, the gap between what government spends and earns – and more production of goods and services.