With a laconic statement at 3 o’clock in the morning an obviously exhausted Greek Prime Minister hailed the European Union-International Monetary Fund agreement. Giving a Greek touch to the famous line of Scarlett O’ Hara “Tomorrow is another day”, Antonis Samaras said:
“Everything went well. We all fought for this. Tomorrow a new day begins for all Greeks.”
Samaras said also that he informed his coalition government partners about good news on the Eurogroup decision.
The new day begins for all Greeks with additional austerity measures and an OECD report predicting that ‘positive growth will start at the end of 2014 and that until then unemployment will be at 27%’.
Hopefully there is always a “Tara” to seek refugee and start a new life when things go really bad.
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That of course depends on which way you look at this. I would hazard a guess and say that those who are looking at yet another cut in wages, pensions, availability of health services and medicines, unemployed, homeless etc. have a slightly different perception of how things went and are going. For most Greeks it’s another shity day, and the long term weather forecast is not looking good.
And just in case he doesn’t know, somebody might inform Mr. Samaras that this is the vast majority of Greeks, the people he is supposed to lead. One could be forgiven for thinking his job is leading the lambs to the slaugther..
Of course he is leading the lambs to the slaughter. But fortunately many Greeks know this and are taking precautionary measures. Just as we did during the katohi, and all the wars.
Once again the government has shown that they are not interested in the people and the country but at their own pockets and self interests just to make their friends in the IMF, EU and Eurozone happy.
Of course the Germans are playing their part very well, acting that they do not want to loan the money to Greece. But behind the scenes rubbing their hands in pleasure with the money they will make from Greece and its people with the interest they will earn.
Next round of austerity measures so, tax on precautionary measures. Tax on thinking about precautionary measures even.
Thou shall not evade the austerity in any way
that’s the plan anyway. Whether they will actually end up getting something is a different argument of course. It all hinges on Greece eventually paying up, and that is anything but a certainty.
His face looks as crumpled as paper. It looks like these late night talks aint good for the politicians. He doesn’t remind me of anyone, but Mr. Papandreau used to remind me of someone, I just couldn’t figure out who and it used to really bug me. One day I was in a grocery store and passed by some Captain Crunch cereal boxes. He honestly had reminded me of Captain Crunch, no offense meant or anything. It was just the moustache I think.
lol Mr Crunchy? while the new one looks like Mr Ghosty