They should abolish their government.
I knew this Greek election was going to be filled with rage, whether justified or not.
I was also pretty sure (in fact I had a post here the other day saying just this) that the results would end in an inability to form a government.
I’m paying only cursory attention to Greece, yet it seems I grasped more than some pros of the Euro elites. From the article “Just four weeks ago, a high-level envoy from the European Commission was still “firmly convinced” that one party would get an absolute majority or that there could be a coalition between the two main parties....”
Now, I guess that is just one person, but for all the attention given to the Golden Dawn party winning seats for the first time, I felt they were missing the forest for the trees.
And I did like this bit also “Panos Kammenos, head of the Independent Greeks party and a former New Democracy minister, said he would not even form a coalition with the conservatives if he was dead.”
LOL is all I can say to that.
But, sigh, it is no laughing matter.
The Greeks have driven themselves into the ditch and now they are mad about it. There’s no more slurpees to sip over there.
I suppose they’ll have a sort of do-over election in June.
I reckon this is the type of situation that is ripe for some kind of “Strong Man” to rise up.
Hubby’s plan is to send all the Greek immigrants here in the US back to the homeland to straighten things out.
That might be a better idea than anybody else has had so far.
Mr. Kammenos is still alive, bless his soul, but I think the Euro is dead. It has already contracted several fatal diseases and has not many quarters to live.
Can we send Bernake and Geithner to Greece along with Krugman and Greenspan? They are such experts at Socialism.
“For Greek voters, the priority was to punish those people who, in the eyes of most Greeks, are mainly to blame for the country’s misery: the politicians.”
Wonder what it’s like to live in a country without mirrors...
I spent a couple of weeks in the late ‘70s in Greece and I’d say the concept of a functioning Greek government was a mere hallucination, even then. The local communists merely had to suggest they were going to conduct a demonstration and the government would roll over on its back.
Greece may be the source of great insights from knowledgeable philosophers that ultimately led to the Enlightenment and what we know today as a democratic republic in the US but the Greeks seem unable to move past the monarchy that once functioned there. Since Britain’s Prince Charles is the progeny of a member of the late Greek monarchy, perhaps he might be interested in having his own country since mummy apparently won’t give over the UK?
Should be good for tourism though. Lots of new ruins to see.