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2012-01-30 Europe

Angry Greeks condemn EU plot to control its finances

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Posted by Steve White 2012-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 See also WAFF > IMF, EU, + ECB [aka the "Troika] ASK GREECE TO DISBAND MILITARY + LAYOFF 150,000 JOBS | GREECE SHOULD STOP SPENDING ON DEFENSE, HEALTH: TROIKA DRAFT SAYS, in order to meet the anti-Deficit conditions of proposed 2012 Bailout Package.

Greece, etal. = at least 10 US States = USA vee Rising China???

Boy o boy, HUGO "THE US HAS [Land/Islands-destroying, sinking] EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" CHAVEZ is on a roll today.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-30 00:34|| 2012-01-30 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Aris, you're cool with this, right?

Posted by Raj 2012-01-30 01:11|| 2012-01-30 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Do not feed the trolls, Raj.

Posted by gromky 2012-01-30 05:27|| 2012-01-30 05:27|| Front Page Top

#4 "The Greeks aren't serious. They won't admit that their economy is ill. They won't take the medicine. Far better to boot them from the Euro-zone, let them devalue the new drachma, and find a way to fix the German and French banks that are exposed."

Steve, many of them do know. It's not an issue of ignorance, it's a matter of not caring. It's a matter of them being the end product of the Gramscian termite, of believing that it is the responsibility of a force (in this case government) outside themselves having the responsibility to take wealth from neighbors and strangers - by force - to make sure that there is no interruption in their own income stream. It's a matter of believing that if there is someone, somewhere, who has two cents more than you do, that cosmically speaking the right thing to do is take one of those cents from that person and give it to you so that everyone ends up the same at the end of the day.

Without shame, or guilt, or loss of autonomy.

In this regard, they aren't a lot different from huge swaths of the rest of Euroland, or the U.S., either.

Posted by no mo uro 2012-01-30 05:57|| 2012-01-30 05:57|| Front Page Top

#5 no mo uro,
Default, followed by bankruptcy, followed by pain, followed by restructuring, followed by healthier practices by all concerned.

Capitalism is a bit*h, but it works.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2012-01-30 08:23|| 2012-01-30 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Computers have served to hide the true conditions. Cause no one actually sees the money anymore.

What are needed are pictures of people with wheelbarrows full of bank notes going to buy a loaf of bread or some other vivid picture of the problem.

This is, currently, just spin and smoke and mirrors to the plebs.

Posted by AlanC 2012-01-30 09:02|| 2012-01-30 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Well If the Germans or the Greeks won't the market will.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-01-30 14:42|| 2012-01-30 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > THE NEXT GREECE: PORTUGAL BORROWING [public debt] COSTS HIT NEW RECORD [20.27%] | {REUTERS] INVESTORS CUE PORTUGAL AS THE NEXT GREECE.

and

* SAME > [WSJ.com] JAPAN'S DEBT PILE STARTS TO GRAB INVESTORS' ATTENTION.

Nippon may only have a couple of years grace, instead of several, until the country's prohibitive debt burden begins to affect its Govt. + quality-of-life, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-30 20:17|| 2012-01-30 20:17|| Front Page Top

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