Posted on 02/15/2015 5:32:22 AM PST by C19fan
For over a fortnight, Europe's single warning to Greece has been that the chaos and misery of national bankruptcy await it unless its new left-wing government changes its anti-austerity tune.
The message of impending doom appears to have gone largely unnoticed on the streets of Athens, where a mood of hope and optimism bordering on euphoria reigns as Greeks see themselves finally shaking off foreign shackles to shape their own destiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
So they’ll go back to the drachma and have to tighten their belts.
But they’ll be doing it themselves and not the Germans ordering them to do it.
All things considered, it may well be the most rational thing the Greeks have done since they won independence in 1832 from the Ottoman Empire.
More expensive iPhones? Oh the humanity!
Sound pretty much like the liberals right here in the U.S.
Frivolity reigns aboard the Titanic. They will never control their own fate as long as they’re chained to the Euro and, as a consequence, their Teutonic masters in the ECB.
Hey Germany, “neither a borrower nor a lender be.........” see?
Yes, this should prove interesting.
Of course, once they're on the drachma the prices for everything will shoot through the roof and the cushy pensions they're so set on protecting will be near worthless.
Radical?
I thought getting off welfare was/is the conservative thing to do.
Its funny to hear conservatives lambast Syriza for trying to get the country off the EuSSR dole.
If they go insolvent, at least that will be THEIR decision, not that of Eurocrats in Brussels.
Relinquishing the bailout intoxicant is a step on the path towards national recovery.
Ah, yes, 1453...the fall of Constantinople. Europe bickered, and denied reality, as the Muslim Turks advanced.
Today's Europe could learn much from that tragic event. But of course they won't.
Pride at being about the laziest most corrupt country? What an honor. Retire at 50 right in the sweet spot of earning potential? Isis has their sights set on them.
The fall of Rome is always a bad thing.
It wasn’t Odoacer who put the Roman Empire out of its misery.
It was Mehmet II of the Ottomans.
The EU-NWO way of doing business is the way Barack Obama and Paul Ryan have been doing business in this country in recent years with cuts to military pensions, new taxes called airline fees, increases in the national debt ceiling.
We must keep borrowing money and going deeper in the hole just like the European Union controlled countries do, its the Uniparty way.
Greece is now governed by a non-Uniparty government of the left leaning Syriza and the conservative Independent Greeks.
Neither the Communist Party nor the fascist Golden Dawn are in the government.
What unites the Left and Right in the new government is the desire for the Greeks to run their own country and take care of their own business without being subordinate to international rule.....
“...reflects the extent to which Greeks resent the “humiliation” of being told what to do by foreign powers, a common theme...” among liberal children and morons.
Wait till the price of ouzo skyrockets
Maybe they should go back and read some Sophocles.
Yes, likely their own currency and perhaps repudiate the debt or maybe agree to pay it off. The interesting thing will be exchange values, etc. This might prove a boon to certain segments of the economy but the basically the chickens have come home to roost: Formerly well-off pensioners will be impoverished and those without skills especially so.
America has no pride, as we totter on the edge of economic and social disaster. In fact, our leaders are on a mission to snuff out any shreds of pride remaining in any of our institutions.
“they’ll go back to the drachma and have to tighten their belts.”
Is Greece a totally independent nation that can produce everything it needs to function? That silly drachma will be worthless as payment outside of Greece, even the Greeks themselves won’t want to accept them as payment.
Maybe if after sliding along the iceberg, the Titanic backed up the other way, the iceberg rubbing would have closed all the holes it had just opened.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.