I’ve been saying this for 7 years.
Let’s get the show on the road already and start rebuilding instead of pretending everything is fine.
I agree. Dump Greece!
Those jekoffs wanted Greece to subsume itself to the EU and failed.
Just need the PIS to follow and we win...
Greece has been bankrupt for years and anybody who has paid attention knows it. Let the bankruptcy go through, let the foolish lenders take their lumps, don’t lend them any more without good security/collateral, and let them live on what they can earn/collect from their tax payers in the future. They can stay in the Eurozone, and whether they keep using euro currency or not - who cares??? Just lend them nothing without great collateral!
Kick them out. A great move in Checkers.
In Chess, one might wonder who the expelled Greeks might turn to.
Russian Navy bases in Greece? China happy to move in to include the Greeks in the new world currency they are trying to build?
This isn’t such an easy thing as ‘kick them out”.
The only part I can’t figure out, is how America will be forced to pay, if Greece, reneges on its deal with the EU.
but I feel sure we get to pay in the end.
For once, the German high command is correct …That’s a phrase that ought not be uttered by anyone at the Telegraph. Especially when this is Marxist against Marxist. The euro was never about a currency, but a way to get countries to surrender their sovereignties. Have the Telegraph staff forgotten what Thatcher said in 1995?
You have not anchored Germany to Europe; you have anchored Europe to a newly-dominant unified Germany. In the end, my friends, you will find that it will not work.And this is what they have been doing. The European Central Bank is on German soil for a particular reason.
If Marxism is so bad, would we be doing it here?
They won’t need to boot Greece out, Tsipras either caves or is booted from office. According to polls, 2/3 of Greeks want to remain within the EU and there is a referendum this weekend. Simply throwing them out would cause a financial catastrophy in the derivatives market and major euro banks could go under making the Lehman Bros collapse look like a walk in the park. Where do they get these idiot reporters?
Prediction: Greece will get booted out of the EU and right into the outstretched arms of Vlad Putin...
Greece purges will then be carried out by putin..
Margaret Thatcher is known to have said, "Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money".
After doing some research, that phrase is not exact, but she said similar in an interview in 1976: "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."
I was never so proud in my life when serving in Aviation Navy while Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher stood against the "evil empire" and eventually brought the Berlin wall down.
Now what do we have as a President of the USA and a Prime Minister of England? Appeasement and feckless leadership from both that is allowing the ISIS savages to advance and even allowing them in our two nations. Reagan/Thatcher would never have allowed that to happen.
Plus, we wouldn't be playing checkers with Iran's Mullahs while they play chess. They were both leaders of the highest caliber and kept the world in check through force and non-compromising diplomatic efforts. Remember, "Trust but verify" by Reagan? Under Obama it's, "Trust and please like me", only.
History will not be kind to Obama. The academia types can re-write history all they want, but the truth will prevail. Barack Hussein Obama is the Neville Chamberlain of our age and even worse with his bowing to so many foreign potentates. He's an affirmative action punk who is way over his head regarding international matters.
It's said daily from the right and some left media that Obama has alienated our allies and encouraged our enemies. It's a fact that no matter how much his handlers try to spin it.
My prediction: The Iran talks will fail no matter how many extentions occur. If Obami/Kerry (I got 3 purple hearta as in many month> keep backing off from their inspection requirements, there is no way the feckless Congress will approve such a treay. And yes, It's treaty.
If there was ever proof of a modern socialism fail, this is it. All come together, but some work and contribute, others stop working and become parasitic. Socialist utopia only works if everybody contributes positively and equally. This doesn’t happen...lazy people will cause the fail every time. If a team mate isn’t contributing, throw them out EARLY!
Greece is but one of the,” PIGS”.
What is the condition of the others, Portugal, Italy,?
Why won’t the heartless Germans support the poor socialist Greeks??? The German (if they had feelings) would work hard into their 70’s to support the Greeks retiring at age 50 and enjoying their retirement in sunny Greece. Where is the compassion?????? W#hat has the world become?