Posted on 05/09/2010 7:31:00 AM PDT by truthfinder9
Deep inside the august halls of Athens University, the renowned political commentator Paschos Mandravelis will deliver a message this week that until very recently was lost on most Greeks.
His speech will focus on a single fact: that the country in the centre of the storm of Europe's worst crisis since the creation of the common market, missed the biggest story ever – its own looming bankruptcy. "Everyone," he says, "starting with the Greek media, was in an incredible state of denial."
Last week escapism was no longer an option as Greece's debt drama claimed its first lives and the nation, teetering on the brink of economic collapse, erupted into violent protests over unprecedented austerity measures.
The deaths on Wednesday of three Greeks, killed in a fire set off by hooded youths throwing petrol bombs into the bank in which they worked, has been the wake-up call – one more shocking than ever thought – to ask questions Greeks would have preferred never to ask.
Yesterday, as tributes continued to pour in for the victims – a man and two women, all recent British university graduates who had shown up for work despite a general strike for fear of losing their jobs – they were asking: "How could it come to this?"
"Greece," says Mandravelis, "is not only confronted with economic failure but a media failure and political failure, and that is what is so frightening."
The financial, and increasingly social, crisis gripping the country has, say analysts, brought the nation face to face with a myth: the myth of a democratic state that thrived not on meritocracy and progress but cronyism and corruption after the last chapter of its troubled history ended with the collapse of military rule in 1974.
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The MSM media keeps mislabeling this bunch of marxist govt thugs in Greece.
“is not only confronted with economic failure but a media failure and political failure, and that is what is so frightening.”
Failures that at this very moment are being repeated again right here in the good old USA.
Deaths? Those people (one pregnant) were murdered.
Keep up the good work.
The Greeks should be turning their wrath on the politicians who let this happen. However with the huge number of Greeks working for the government will not be pleased as it was their jobs that was in part that was the cause of the financial failure.
It’s amazing to see how the Greeks have been reduced to nothing more than pigs at the trough who feel entitled to their share of cash they didn’t earn - like professional politicians.
Socialism ALWAYS FAILS
1. Spending exceeds revenue
2. The admitted existence of a black market aka CAPITALISM
3. Debt means less freedom.
"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
Socialism = FAILURE!
That’s what I mean. The Greek citizenry have become like our professional politicians here in the US and those individuals and corporations that are on the dole in one form or another.
‘The problem is that the culture of the Greeks have changed. They don’t like to work or work very hard. They expect to be taken care of.’
That’s what the process of Socialization (via government and unions) does to a culture, a people - turning them into animals. They essentially become cattle that you see laying around chewing their cud expecting to get fed all the time by the farmer.
‘This is why he immigrated to the US. He’s an achiever. The Greek economy and the government is against achievers.’
The US used to be a country that rewarded achievers who actually contributed something positive to this country. The opposite started happening in the early 1960s and has accelerated since that time.
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