eXpat wrote:In a surprise result, Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, which seeks to annul the austerity program, saw its share of the vote more than triple to 16.3% of the vote and 50 seats--making it the second largest party in parliament, the ministry projections showed. So, seems to be that most people agree that the solution to the crisis is the printing machine?
Good luck with that...
"Surprise" result? Only surprise to me is that it didn't happen sooner. Look at how much the Greeks have suffered. Their parliament defying the will of the people over, and over, and over. I was always amazed how that could happen in a democracy, instead of throwing molotov cocktails at police
why don't they use their vote, it's a democratic republic after all, one can vote that's rule of law you don't have to riot.
So good on them, they want to annul austerity. Democracy is better than revolution.
This is how bad things are in Greece:
Greek Tragedy; Greek Pharmacist's Suicide NoteThe occupation government of Tsolagoglou
has erased essentially any possibility of my survival which was based on a decent pension which for 35 years, I alone had paid.I am at an age which doesn’t give me the individual capacity for a dynamic intervention (without of course precluding that if one Greek took up arms-Kalashnikovs, the second person would be me)
I cant find another solution from a decent end before I end up looking in the rubbish bins for food.I believe that the young without a future, one day will take up arms and in Sindagma Sq will hang upside down the national traitors like the Italians did with Mussolini.
http://www.galtreport.com/index.php/economics/5-general/1045-greek-tragedy-greek-pharmacists-suicide-note
This is what happens when you take away workers' pensions, even the white collars, pensions these people paid into their entire working lives only to lose them when they retire and are too old to work anymore, it's not fair. It's pretty bad if even retired pharmacists are facing the prospect of eating out of dumpsters to survive, it's pretty bad when even pharmacists are talking revolution.
Good on the Greeks and their "radical left." Throw that government they have over there right out of office. The only thing worse than austerity is red-headed stepchild austerity, with Southern Europe hung out to dry while the Franco Prussians experiment on them like lab rats. This is intolerable for a union of states, in the US it would be like putting the screws to Alabama just to see what happens, austerity just for the red states but not the blue.
That's tyranny, either Europe is a union or it is not -- people must have a vote, you must have democracy, Southern Europeans can't have their central banking power taken from them and austerity forced on them from Paris and Berlin and all the Greek leaders can say is "we have no choice."
Add to that, austerity is officially a failure now. I read something about the UK, worst unemployment now since the 1930s and they're in recession again. Austerity has failed, socialists have won in France it's time to admit it. They did their experiment on Greece for years now, and it has shown
the more the more austerity they do the more deflation they get, requiring ever more austerity. It's a downward spiral, and was an interesting experiment but too bad so many ordinary people like retired pharmacists had to suffer, while banksters got even richer.
