[RKBA Democrat]

Interesting times.

[Cowboy Bob]

Greece plans to “give the finger” to Europe...followed shortly afterwards by a request for more money.

[SampleMan]

Odds that the referendum is a ruse? That the Greek pols will announce that it was a “YES” vote, so that they can take the deal without being tossed from office?

[gaijin]

Russia might lose her single port on the Mediterranean in Syria so I think it’s possible Russia will try to exploit this and get a Navy base in Greece, perhaps.

[bert]

Are there ATM’s for accounts still containing money?

Who has any money left unwithdrawn ?

[HLPhat]

“Despite the collective sense that a catastrophe of some type stares Greece in the face, the country’s strong tradition of hospitality remains intact. Mathes won’t let a visitor leave without a bundle of fresh vegetables and some “trachanas” and “chilopites,” types of local pasta his family makes by hand. Many believe the ability to help one another with food gives Karitaina, with about 30 year-round residents and 100 in the long, drowsy summer, a better chance of surviving than city dwellers coping with the same anxieties. Rural Greek communities have age-old survival tactics that allow them to weather storms such as World War II deprivation and natural disasters. They will need to draw on them deeply, as Greece’s current problems are unlikely to go away soon...”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GREECE_RESILIENT_VILLAGES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-07-03-08-15-15

"Greek communities have age-old survival tactics that allow them to weather storms such as World War II deprivation and natural disasters."

Hmmm. How does that work?

[babble-on]

I think Tsipras’ intention all along was to repudiate the debt and leave the Euro.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Socialism fails...all the time!!! Greeks....broom your leftist government and officially recognize “There is no such thing as a free lunch”!!! Better move quickly folks, because you are killing the golden goose that lays the golden cash egg in Greece.....the foreign tourist business!!! Wake up, fools!!!

[Koracan]

The Euro is used daily by some 337 million Europeans as of 2015.

Additionally, 210 million people worldwide as of 2013 use currencies pegged to the euro.

The euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar.

Greece Population 2012 census 10.8 million.
Important Greek industries include tourism international tourists in 2009, it is ranked as the 7th most visited country in the European Union and 16th in the world.

Getting out of the Euro might not be a good idea.

[MinuteGal]

A tidbit of history.....

On the 21st of April, 1967, just weeks before a scheduled election, a junta of right-wing colonels and other army officers seized power from the Greek government in a successful coup d'etat.

The military rule ended on July 24, 1974,

Will history repeat itself?

Leni

[lgjhn23]

A socialist utopia running out of other peoples’ money.

[Cementjungle]

Everything I’ve read says that EU is still providing liquidity to the banks until July 20’th. So, I don’t expect anything dramatic to happen before then... and I do expect the EU to wind up lending them even more money... kicking the can down the line another year or two.

[Tzimisce]

Wonder how they’ll feel tomorrow when their welfare checks don’t show up.

[montag813]

Greece is the heroin addict that needs to go cold turkey. It will either make them a better, leaner country, or destroy them.