Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Well there you go: Arrogance.Originally Posted by Adrian II
What's this about the money lenders saying the austerity measures have gone too far?
It strengthens my position that the Greek government is responsible for this mess. Greece has a democratic government, therefore it is a problem with the people, the culture, or (likely) both.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Yes, the political system is out-dated and corrupt, it is now in disarray, but neither the ruling PASOK (160 of 300 seats) nor the main opposition party ND (91 seats) is willing to change it because their political and personal interests are bound up with it.Well there you go: Arrogance.
What's this about the money lenders saying the austerity measures have gone too far?
It strengthens my position that the Greek government is responsible for this mess. Greece has a democratic government, therefore it is a problem with the people, the culture, or (likely) both.
Probably sounds familiar to an American, huh?
AII
Last edited by Adrian II; 10-05-2011 at 16:04.
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Oh yea. There's a huge problem with governments becoming vested in failing systems. That's why a little revolution now and then is a good thing. Western (U.S. and many European) governments and economies are coming to the end of the postwar era. America's economy was based on a shattered European economy. Many of Europe's governments have their roots in the aftermath of the war.
Hopefully it won't take another war to sort things out.
Sorry. I'm not being too helpful, am I?
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Gee Greece buys 400 M1A1 Abrams tanks and 20 AAV7A1's. Another reason why we aren't getting our money back
Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Their military budget ranks 2nd in Europe. Behind Turkey. Can you guess why?
AII
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Yep. And they probably have to buy these tanks in exchange for the loan.
Send me another accept-gyros sure I'll pay *sigh*
Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Because Turkey is number 1? I'm not sure how they planned on getting all those tanks across the Aegean though...
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Turkish Thrace.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
You'd think that they were expecting trouble wouldn't you?
A military junta for them this time next year.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
ya muahahaha incident in the Balkan anyone
Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
http://euobserver.com/13/113821The Greek armed forces now appear to be entering the political and street-level debate in the country over EU- and IMF-imposed austerity, with a group of retired Greek officers storming the defence ministry and the armed forces’ professional organisation issuing a stern warning to the government that the military’s confidence in the “intentions of the state” regarding their pensions has been “shaken”.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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