The Greek government is fighting the tyranny of the EU and its austerity.
Greece’s government includes the conservative Independent Greeks and their leader Defense Minister Panos Kammenos.
These folks are not the fascist Golden Dawn.
Greece is opposing the EU corporatists, the big banks, big business and big government types that push open borders Amnesty, Gay Marriage with persecution of those who oppose it, International Trade Deals and Climate Change policies to favor big business and crush small business and individuals.
Nobody has yet given a coherent argument as to why it is so important for Greece to keep the Euro, a currency whose main reason for invention was because the European bankers (especially the French) were jealous of the U.S.dollar.
I sincerely hope that you are right.
Bull hockey. The Greeks want more of other people’s money without strings.
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“Greece is opposing the EU corporatists, the big banks, big business and big government types that push open borders Amnesty, Gay Marriage with persecution of those who oppose it, International Trade Deals and Climate Change policies to favor big business and crush small business and individuals.”
What? Greece is a deadbeat country with a population that thinks the rest of the EU should support their lazy asses. Just what in the wide world of sports doe any of that other crap have to do with their financial situation. I think you may be on the wrong forum. Try DU! You’ll fit right in!
Yes, the EU is tyrannical and a bunch of power hungry swine, but the Greek government (and 'economists') are the most stupid bunch of sots to ever run a country. Well, their socialist 'utopia' is crashing down and their only options are either a hard landing or a dead landing.
What a bunch of crap.
The Greek government is fighting to continue getting freebies and run their quasi-marxist state and not have to pay for it. That is all this comes down to.
From the right, I'd vote no. But my reason is to leave the EU entirely, control my own destiny and I would recognize that the immediate pain of Grexit would be tough. My goal would be to re-establish a free market, competitive state. That is NOT what this Greek government or most voting NO want. They just want a better deal. IE, more freebies to continue their statist ways.
Austerity means cutting back on spending dramatically, vastly reducing the amount of government workers, slashing ridiculous pensions that Greece could never afford. Again, this is NOT what the NO voters want.
Also this anti banker stuff is just more BS. If they hadn't overspent they would not be at the mercy of these "evil banksters". This is no different than if you ran up your credit card bill and the creditors worked with you (granted for their own benefit) to allow you to avoid bankruptcy. You'd be at their mercy. That is where Greece finds itself. Don't overspend, live within your means, and you won't have this problem and neither would Greece.
By the way, most Greek universities are practically communist education centers. The young people have drank the kool aid and are looking for anyone to blame but their own socialist ways.
“Austerity”=spending cuts
spending cuts=good
“Conservatives” who oppose cutting spending and who would team up with communists aren’t conservatives at all.
Greece has the same problem as some US states. They spend way too much, especially on damn pensions for government workers that don’t deserve them.