Greece erupts as men from IMF prepare to wield axe

The Sunday Times (London ^

[reformedliberal]

All they know, everywhere, is the leftmost quarter of the political spectrum. Thus, any true *centrist* is seen as extreme right wing *capitalists*.

It is like someone with only their left eye and a neck brace.

Can someone explain how rioting and destruction will bring about any change at all in the bankrupt world? Will these blind fools be content with Monopoly money while producing nothing at all that could be purchased, even if the currency had value? How long do they think such a system would last? And then what?

Locally, a while back, someone opined in my presence that *they* “would have to do something” so that the present-day 50-somethings would have a retirement. Not one person responded. They seem to believe that temper tantrums bring the desired result.

[Kozak]

Boomers (and technically I am one) who never thought the bill would come due, and now that it is here, they are trying to slip out the back door before the waiter comes back with the manager.

The "worst generation."

I'm a little sick of the Boomer bashing. Social Security and Medicare were in place LONG before Boomers had an impact on politics. When some of us TRIED to sound the alarm during the 80's and 90's it was the Seniors who had a fit and blocked any attempt to correct the problem. The ones who broke the piggy bank were in fact the boomers parents, we're just going to pay the price along with our children.

[Doe Eyes]

The ones who broke the piggy bank were in fact the boomers parents, we're just going to pay the price along with our children.

Social Security is only government pension fund in which the money paid in was immediately spent by the United States Government for non pension purposes.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Flowers and beads are one thing
Aging gracelessly is something else...

[phockthis]

sfl

[eleni121]

I content that beginning in the early 1900s, the best, brightest and most ambitious, sensing the political rot within...

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Easy to say..and very inaccurate. I am the descendant of those hard working emigre Greeks...and I used to think that too.

Not any more.

What about the hundreds of thousands of Greeks who died struggling against both the the German/Austrian Nazis and the Soviet Marxist threat during the Greek civil war? Greece is in the economic shape it's in in partly because it has succumbed to the seductive siren of crass materialism enforced by western institutions who want nothing more than easy acxess to markets and damned ethnic identity and damned religion and damned anything that interferes with its goal of a one world corporate market...

Greeks have paid their dues ..dearly...with blood ..since ancient times --saving the west over and over again.

[Windcatcher]

My whole life, my mom and grandmother (who came here from Sparta) kept talking about how they kept electing socialists in Greece and the huge mistake they were making. Now I can see how right they were. The house of cards has fallen.

[ETL]

Great post.

Thanks. But for some mysterious reason the mods deleted it.

[EternalVigilance]

Odd.

[EternalVigilance]

Glad I saved it here:

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=13817&posts=3&highlight=greece&highlightmode=1#M36937

[rcrngroup]

Some young Greeks prefer to blame their elders for the mountain of debt that has resulted in Greece, like a wayward child, being placed under the tutelage of the men from the IMF.

“I cannot help but blame my parents a little for what’s happened,” said Achilles Zacharoulis, a 36-year-old cardiologist. “They were here all that time,” he added, referring to the past three decades of mismanagement and fiscal insanity. “But what did they do to stop it?”

For one thing, the "Yutes" need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that the socialist nanny welfare state policies & programs is what created the mess. Throw out socialism altogether, quit looking for "gubmint" to take care of them and take care of their own future. Unfortunately 0bozo the commie pig and the socialist demoRATS in this country have got us headed exactly down the same path. We NEED an American Revulotion II to throw out the socialist demoRATs and the social programs of the last 100 years, and to get the federal gubmint off our backs.

[rcrngroup]

Liberal socialist demoRATs.... That was then, this is now!
LMAO!

[rcrngroup]

You got that right! I agree. If we are serious about reversing the deadly sins & acts of socialism, we should repeal every law passed by Congress going back to the turn of century. 1900 that is!

[SeattleBruce]

“No to the IMF’s junta”

YES, to living on other people’s money!

Morons.

[agere_contra]

Greece is in the economic shape it's in in partly because it has succumbed to the seductive siren of crass materialism...

Hardly. Greece is in the shape it's in because government spending is through the roof, and because its citizens reflexively blame everyone else for their self-induced problems.

Right now they're blaming the IMF and Germany for not giving them free money. And if the IMF did give them money with no strings attached, in two years time the Greeks would be blaming the IMF for the new, far worse situation 'caused by the IMF'.

If your post is any indication, the Greek blindness to reality isn't going away anytime soon.

[Melchior]

Greeks have not done a damned thing since independence from the Ottomans. And don’t give me that Kazantzakis BS. Or the Spartan replay. As for Greeks following WWII, if it hadn’t been for the West the Communists would have taken over. And, sadly, with the Marshall Plan began the long series of hand-outs to the Greek people. I contend the best and brightest have left Greece, and that it is a process that began with Polybius and has continued now for 2,000 years.

[eleni121]

Since you don’t know much if at all - I can’t waste my time.

[eleni121]

NO - Government spending due to the demands of the EU.

Best thing Greece could do is send every one of the thousands and thousands of illegals to the British mainland...you can take care of the flopsam British policies have created.