[Sherman Logan]

Therefore, they can’t indulge in “quantitative easing” or printing money to pay their debts. They have to get an outside authority to print money for them. That entity is using its economic power to rape and pillage.

Rape, possibly. Pillage, not so much. Unless you believe pillage consists of spending the pillagers' money to bail out the pillagees.

The truly ludicrous part of the EU mess is that ALL parties are made worse off by the desperate efforts to prop up the euro.

[Teacher317]

The truly ludicrous part of the EU mess is that ALL parties are made worse off by the desperate efforts to prop up the euro.

That is the central theme of the Left... make people "more equal" by spreading misery around. Those who were miserable before aren't affected as much as those who weren't... so now we are all More Equal! Yay!