Posted on 06/26/2015 3:12:08 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Greece will hold referendum on controversial bailout deal with foreign creditors, PM Alexis Tsipras says
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Says that there will be national referendum next weekend, to decide whether to accept the EU/IMF's austerity demands, or tell them to go to hell.
Now might be a good time for Greeks to brush up on their Russian?
With everything else going on, we also have financial doom potential to watch out for.
They’ll vote to keep borrowing. Guess who from.
From Twitter:
Paul Mason 3 minutes ago
Greece. If the vote is no, he goes back to Brussels with implicit mandate for default/ velvet divorce
This is a no-brainer - just raise taxes on the rich.
CBC News Alerts CBCAlerts 4 hours ago
More @CBCNews: #EU demands more austerity, gives 48-hr deadline. #Greece calls it ‘blackmail.’
they will default and stay in the EU.
Then the central bank will either have to go to war or realize the collapse of the Euro fiat currency.
spyros gkelis 2 minutes ago
All four Ministers interviewed after the cabinet had a clear view on the #referendumGR: It should be a “No”.
But what if the Greeks vote yes?
Does Tsipras then give in to the creditor’s demands? I guess he could because when the Greeks start complaining....opps, make that rioting.....then he can say, “Hey - you clowns voted yes. Why you yelling at me?!”
I’m glad. The sooner we have a real global economic catastrophe, the sooner the left gets its just desserts
If they vote to stay in, and accept the EU terms, they can call it “Dependence Day”
“If they vote to stay in, and accept the EU terms, they can call it “Dependence Day””.
LOLOL. Good one.
Doesn’t austerity mean that Greek citizens are going to sacrifice so the elite can get more money to pay off the money they wasted? Why would anyone vote for that?
Default does not necessarily mean they leave the EU.
The nightmare for bankers is that different eu notes will have different values.
Greeks have loads of taxes on the rich. They just don’t collect them. Paying off their debts would be trivial if they had our IRS..
Hmmm..Can we trade??
There isn’t enough “other people’s money” in the world to allow Americans coast like Greeks have been. Greeks elected the communists to power in some knee jerk reaction and these communists want to burn the whole world down. Something that the regular Greeks are against. That is why all this nonsense and deception happens.
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