Posted on 02/16/2010 1:04:10 PM PST by jpl
The council of EU finance ministers said Athens must comply with austerity demands by March 16 or lose control over its own tax and spend policies altogether. It if fails to do so, the EU will itself impose cuts under the draconian Article 126.9 of the Lisbon Treaty in what would amount to economic suzerainty.
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The only possible monarchy would be one in which a descendant of Constantine Paleologus was found and installed.
Greece needs fewer outside silly entanglements not more. Greece needs the independence to deal with a massive influx of illegals from the East which the EU and its thousands of statutes condone.
Greece is in this manufactured financial predicament because of the EU not in spite of it.
But people want the US to be more like Europe.
The only cheating socialist bloosuckers are the National Socialists of Germany. Pay up the reparations! You owe.
So, if Greece decides to secede from the EU, will Abe Lincoln send in the bluebellies?
Greek tempers will never achieve anything with the rational Germans. Never.
Yeah..Germans keep it all bottled up and then explode in an orgy of blood letting twice a century.
Spare me your stupid sactimony...
I am of the opinion that any king is better than any democracy, and is certain to better guard both national sovereignty and national solvency than the sellouts in government.
temper, temper; I’m Polish, btw.
WOW!!!
Great news for the markets!!!
Let’s look for another triple-digit rally tomorrow!!!
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING = RALLLLEEEEEE!!!!!
Only one problem.
Greece asked to be let in.
They asked to be let in because they knew they were outspending their revenue and they thought the EU would help them out.
They didn’t change their ways, and they are now insolvent.
The socialist spending of Greece has failed, and their quest for a socialist handout from the EU has failed.
The country and its government workers (who are protesting and destroying property for more government handouts) deserve whatever ills it suffers.
What is really evil is that Greece, as its history was a microcosm of our own (federated states that eventually became a unified nation), is currently a microcosm of where our nation is headed.
Polish? My favorite apart from Lech is King Jan III Sobieski who showed his tuff killing muslim vampires at the Battle of Vienna
God Bless the Polish people...all except the Commie Polish that is.
Did the Poles get any reparations from the Krauts?
The Poles have had a difficult history; sometimes it’s better to forgive. My mother (100% first generation American) said to me after I had first read about Nazi atrocities against Poland (this was in the ‘70s): “you know, that was a long time ago and most of the people who did that are dead. Germans today had nothing to do with it, no point blaming them for it.” That’s a healthy way to deal with history, I think. Otherwise, hatred continues unchecked.
I speak German (ein bisschen); I read it much better than I speak it.
The Poles did get Breslau (Worclaw) and Danzig (Gdansk) among other cities after the borders lurched westward. And then they suffered another 45years under the USSR’s heel.
Absolutely - My wife's family (Catholics all) fled Austrian occupation there in the late nineteenth centruy after Austrians started executing local civilians as punishment/deterrent against supporting nationalism in a neighbouring district.
During their flight, at one pioint they hid from a patrol checking the house they were in but had no time to remove the baby (less than one year old) from the cradle. A young Austrian trooper spitted it casually and the patrol wandered off, knowing the family would be nearby but not too worried about finding them now they'd delivered this "lesson".
F ‘em.
They have not learned a damn thing IMO.
Good one.
If this comes to pass, things will get interesting over on that side of the pond.
Sparta conquers Athens once more.
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