...I'd be in favor of a law restricting wearing of Greek Fishermens' caps to actual Greek Fishermen.
Posted on 07/06/2015 7:11:47 AM PDT by Mariner
Despite the scaremongering and bullying from those in Brussels, we are waking today with Greece having delivered a resounding No.
That comes despite EU bosses saying that it would mean a Greek exit from the Euro, not to mention the heavy economic pressure placed on the Greek people to go along with the wishes of Brussels. It is a crushing defeat for those Eurocrats who believe that you can simply bulldoze public opinion.
Chief bully-boy Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and other supposed leaders of the European Union did their best to terrify the Greek people into submitting to the wishes of the European Union. But they utterly failed. The fear espoused by the Yes campaign was rejected. Opinion polls that put the Yes side ahead just days before were way out, as thousands upon thousands of Greek citizens lined the streets chanting “Oxi”.
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Now, the Greeks are free to starve on their own terms.
Be happy for them.
Quit whining and DIE!
Now all they need is a dictator like Lincoln to step in and kill millions to SAVE the union!
*barf*
All this a reminder of the concept that once you create an entitlement state it becomes next to impossible to unwind it without tremendous civil unrest.
So is anyone. But the point here is that, despite their politics, they had the gumption to stand up for their convictions and do it, right or wrong, their way. They, essentially, through off the shackles of tyranny.
I think we need to look beyond “Left” or “Right” here and admire what they’ve done.
The more I’ve read and researched this the more remarkable I find it.
Well done Greece.
What? The Greeks, the authors of democracy, want to exercise their sovereignty and not let "The New World Order" push them around?
I love Nigel and maybe it’s dumb for me to doubt his call, but IMO his call on the death of the EU is seriously premature. He is of course very overreactive as far as the EU influence over Britain, and I mean zero disrespect with that statement: He has every right and reason to detest the idea of Britain surrendering sovereignty to Brussels. Yes...it (dissolution of the EU) may happen. But it’s not going to happen over a nothing-GDP country like Greece. Or Greece + Portugal. Add in any of Spain, Ireland, or Italy, or any combo of same, then I would start to worry.
Look at the mess the EU has made of Europe. The EU won’t die until the bankers and all the other Morlocks have to head for the hills and hide.
Maybe, but it's still a long way from dead. A geographic Frankenstein that should never have been born.
There is not nothing like the freedom to dumpster dive as much as you want.
The EU was duct-taped together in the first place.
It will take the Antichrist to truly unify them. That’ll work, for a bit.
...I'd be in favor of a law restricting wearing of Greek Fishermens' caps to actual Greek Fishermen.
Not paying one’s debts is nothing to admire. Isn’t that what Obama and crew are advocating? Something for nothing?
This isn’t about standing up for their convictions.
What do you imagine the Greeks want? They don’t want to be out of the Eurozone. They don’t want to be out of the European Union.
What convictions?
The only thing the Greeks want is not to have their pensions cut even though they have borrowed billions of dollars and refused to cut spending.
What tyranny are they wanting to break free from except the shackles of reality?
The Iron Bank will have it's due.....
Meanwhile, the wealthy Greeks who would have the most to lose from this already took their money out of the country. Which of course means that they middle class will bear the brunt of this, as usual.
The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and the middle class will pay for it.
Like I said ... politics aside.
They did what they said they would do. I admire that.
The analysis of how they got there and where they are going is a different discussion.
When Greece dissolves into chaos, lets see how fun they think socialism is.
The Greeks are quite proud of their grand larceny.
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