If Greece falls, no one wants their prints on the murder weapon

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | April 27, 2015 | Paul Taylor

[John W]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - "We're going bust." "No, you're not." "You're strangling us." "No we're not." "You owe us for World War Two." "We gave already."

The game of chicken between Greece and its international creditors is turning into a vicious blame game as Athens lurches closer to bankruptcy with no cash-for-reform agreement in sight.

Europe's political leaders and central bankers and Greek politicians agree on only one thing: if Greece goes down, they don't want their fingerprints on the murder weapon.

If Athens runs out of cash and defaults in the coming weeks, as seems increasingly possible, no one wants to be accused of having pushed it over the edge or failed to try to save it.

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Greece is one of the small horns of the Book of Daniel. It will be uprooted. It will not be let off the hook. It will pay for its spendthrift ways with a loss of its sovereignty. See Daniel 7:8.

[Moltke]

“Murder” weapon?

It can only be ruled a suicide.

[Kozak]

Our 14 trillion in debt and 100 trillion plus unfunded liabilities make the Greeks look like models of financial stability.

[RayChuang88]

However, unlike the terrifying week in August 2011, the Europeans have learned their lesson and have worked really hard to shore up banking systems everywhere but Greece. As such, if Greece exits the Eurozone, the effect on the European economy will be minimal.

I wouldn't be surprised that once Greece returns to the drachma, other European nations will snap up Greek assets "for a song" in no time flat.

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a reference to the “king of the Greeks” in Daniel 8.21. There was no unified kingdom of Greece in ancient times, so no person who was king of the Greeks (until the 1830s), so this is presumably a reference to Alexander the Great of Macedonia, who spoke Greek.

[Moltke]

Perhaps - but Greece doesn’t really produce anything; can’t see them *working* their way out of their mess. The US probably could, if it really wanted to.

[Jonty30]

I would suggest that you get to know how Adventists understand the Bible. Everything seems to be going how we understand it. It does not mean you are wrong with what happens to Greece.

[Kozak]

There is no way we can make good that massive pile of debt we owe. Not possible.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe the Greeks should argue that the West owes them an endless debt of gratitude for giving it Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, and Telly Savalas. The debt can never be repaid, but we can continue sending them money.

[Moltke]

Look at it this way: it's just numbers on paper - as long as there's no one to forcibly collect the debt. At least that's the way it seems to be set up...

As a great American philosopher was fond of opining, What, me worry?

[Moltke]

I believe the statute of limitations for copyrights has run out by now for all but Telly Savalas - perhaps some shipments of lollipops would cover our debt?

“Good lollipops, very tasty and nutricious!”