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Greece Needs Bridge Loan, Not Bailout - PM Tsipras [That's What Greece Said Before?]
February 08, 2015

Posted on 02/08/2015 11:03:39 AM PST by Steelfish

Greece Needs Bridge Loan, Not Bailout - PM Tsipras

Greece cannot service its huge debt and will seek a bridge loan rather than an extension of its bailout, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said.

In an address to parliament, he also promised measures to cut bureaucratic spending and said his government would stick to all its pre-election pledges.

Mr Tsipras's far-left Syriza party won elections last month on a promise to end austerity measures.

EU officials have rejected his efforts to renegotiate Greece's bailout terms.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; europeanunion; greece; syriza

1 posted on 02/08/2015 11:03:39 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

LOL.


2 posted on 02/08/2015 11:13:54 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Steelfish

the Greek gov’t needs to auction off all of Greece’s real estate to pay the debts and the peeps need to all move to, say, Saudi Arabia.


3 posted on 02/08/2015 11:15:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Steelfish

And when they get that loan, they know just what they'll buy.

4 posted on 02/08/2015 11:21:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: Steelfish

We want to eat hamburger today. We’ll pay you back on Tuesday.


5 posted on 02/08/2015 11:22:03 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Bridge loan, as in the expression “bridge I wanna sell ya”.

http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/greece

http://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficit-of-greece.html


6 posted on 02/08/2015 11:22:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: Steelfish

Now who’s the sucker going to be that will give Greece abridge loan when they couldn’t pay off their original debt.

I for one wouldn’t take that risk unless I had some serious collateral backing it up.


7 posted on 02/08/2015 11:24:42 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Steelfish

Bridge Loan/Bailout. Have they contacted Uncle Sam? We’ve got fiat to burn. Out socialists are more equal than other PIIGS. Addicted to OPM. Redistribution of debt ALERT!

OPA!


8 posted on 02/08/2015 11:24:50 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Steelfish

Greece sounds like one of my brother-in-laws. He always needs a bridge loan also. Problem is he has not yet paid back the first bridge loan we gave him. May be I will direct him to ECB who is more generous in giving out bridge loans.


9 posted on 02/08/2015 11:38:32 AM PST by entropy12 ( Only real function of economic forecasts is to make astrology look respectable.)
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To: Paladin2

I’ve said it before,
I think that the euro jews maybe interested.


10 posted on 02/08/2015 11:39:54 AM PST by jonose
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11 posted on 02/08/2015 11:54:02 AM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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To: Steelfish

Bridge to where?


12 posted on 02/08/2015 12:02:04 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Steelfish

Greece needs to get its house in order. The rest of the world doesn’t need to do anything to help Greece.


13 posted on 02/08/2015 12:39:26 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Steelfish

Greece needs its population..its voters...educated to the realities of economics. Its voters keep voting for politicians who pander to their absurd fantasies.

Money is not the problem and not the solution.


14 posted on 02/08/2015 2:09:13 PM PST by spintreebob
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