King Kreole
natural blondie like goku
The thing is, everyone is catching up now on what has been going in Greece. But Greeks themselvs should remind everyone that corruption has always been around, including under right governments. That the so-called "chaos" in Greece did not stop Germany from doing a lot of business there, and if you study the Eurozone you realize it works because some countries are customers : Germany needs Greece, among others, to imports German goods. That's how Germany keeps it economy going, because the interior market is stagnant (yes, you guessed it : because of austerity measures). Also, Golden Sachs helped previous greek gvt to "work the books" in order to get into the eurozone. And the crisis was out of hand a long time before Syriza was even formed. This would be like blaming Obama for the war in Irak.
Wha people fail to understand, I thinlk, is just what Greece has ALREADY done : they have been doing ALL THE STUFF required by the IMF, ECB and Commission for YEARS now. And the situation has only gotten worse and worse, like every serious economist knows it would. Austerity policies cannot lead to growth, it's almost mathematically impossible. And now eldery people are dying, people don't have access to school, o medecine, to public transportation, to their pension, etc. How exactly are they supposed to create any kind of growth?
Syriza is asking to change the focus from just repaying the debt to actually investing in the future. Because, it MUST be repeated time and time again, 3/4 of all the money "given" to Greece never made it to Greece : it went straight in the French, German banks and the IMF. IMF already made 2.5 billion euros off the Greek debt.
So what Syriza is asking is that instead of having all that money go the banks, let's actually invest for the future with it. A sor of New-Deal if you will. Because how else do we create growth?
Yeah I agree. Corruption, even if it's not to the scale of Greece's, is taking place in every nation, so it's not like Greece is some unique evil or anything. And the dominant European nations/banks definitely took advantage of mismanagement of the Greek state, but it's Greece who got left holding the bag in this case. It would be foolish to blame Syriza, who have been in office for 6 months, for the past 6 years of Greek mismanagement that led to this situation, so I don't blame them for the mess Greece is in. I also don't think hardline austerity is the solution to this crisis. The way I see it, austerity is a contextual tool. If a government is spending an inordinate amount and being profligate with their budget (which Greece was, running a 200% debt-to-GDP ratio


Someone has to pay, and If anyone should be paying for this, it's the Greeks themselves, as soon as they are capable.