Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras declared that the Grexit era was dead. Speaking in Brussels to reporters after the Eurogroup approved the mammoth bailout fund of 52.5 billion euro, an obviously relieved Samaras said:
“Solidarity in our union is alive, ‘Grexit’ is dead. Greece is back on its feet.The sacrifices of Greek people have not been in vain,. It’s not only a new day for Greece but also a new day for Europe.”
“Grexit’ is the short term used by international media commentators and economists to describe scenarios about the possibility of bankrupt Greece to exit the euro zone.
Seriously?
are you one of those who never believed we can make it? tsk tsk tsk
On the contrary, you know i believe Greece can.
But not this way.
This is nothing short of wholesale sell-out of the people, the country, its assets, its soul.
Pinnocchio nose for Antonis as well. And Nobel prize for dillusionary politics.
Who can still take seriously what samaras says?
Come on…
Say what you will about Samaras, but he’s the best of the worst!
True, so very true. but why would Greece have to settle for the best of the wrost.
Why not start with the worst of the best? Now that would be a major improvement…
Things need to change, and they are very slowly, so that the best could be respected, appreciated and rewarded for their efforts instead of being back stabbed. Until that happens the good ones will stay away.
Things are changing alright. Health care gone, social security gone, labour laws gone, lives gone, houses gone…The only people getting stabbed in the back are The People.
Let me ask you something. We all agree that tax evasion is one of, if not the main problem, right?
The government and the Troika released figures estimating that tax evasion has cost GREECE some 70 billion € over the last few years, enough, if recoverd, to put the country back on a VERY healthy footing. World wide, tax evasion has been calculated to amount to 32 TRILLION…
Also, the government has various lists, and more coming, indicating who the GREEK tax evaders are, where the money is, and how much. IF tackling this was indeed a priority, putting one and one together, and a little cooperation between the various governments should be a very simple exercise.
Nevertheless, the Troika insists on demolishing social fabric, destroying health care, social security, labour laws, etc. as the main parts of their “drive” to “put Greece, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and all the others back on their feet”.
In the GREEK reality, as 40,000 homeless (and growing), 1,275,000 unemployed (growing by about 1000 a week), 3,000,000 living below the poverty line (rapidly growing) and the thousands of suicide victims know (rapidly increasing), the TROIKA have done nothing short of demand the total destruction of the country’s economy and it’s people, and have been abily assisted in this by the best of the worst.
Where, in any of the MoU’s, do you see a TROIKA demand for the Greek government to recover the 70 billion € outstanding taxes and actually solve the problem within let’s say 3 months? It shouldn’t take longer than that, and it doesn’t need to cost society the very basis of its structures and existence.
If you do, please tell us where you see it, and why it isn’t happening.
It’s not there, and never will be, because they all, Troika, governments, banks, EC, ECB, IMF and tax evaders have their snouts in the very same trough. A trough that we, the people, are having to continiously feed with more slop so they can satisfy their insatiable greed for always more…
That is the blunt reality of the MoU’s and the result of the actions of “the best of the worst”.
BTW: I do’t know where the number 40,000 for homeless comes from when no statistics. read it somewhere else yesterday too.
It’s an estimation, based on not so scientific but usually reliable “hear-say” from those working with the homeless. Deducted from size of queues in food kitchens etc. One of the first things you do when working in food kitchens and shelters is try and strike up a “connect” with the people and find out more about their personal circumstance.
We used to do this in Dublin with the street children. Befriend them, find out who, what, why, when and how. The people who do this are specially trained, dedicated volunteers who go out and literally hunt for street children and target them with the intention of getting them of the streets before they get caught up in drugs and prostitution, which is sadly only too often the end result. It they don’t commit suicide first…
It’s not something you can put into “reliable” statistics simply because the people themselves have stopped being a statistic…
that’s why I say that, the ngo still speaks of 20,000. I don
t think number doubled within a year.
I would be very surprised if the number isn’t actually higher…
wherever the troica operates it causes chaos
i know i live in the first ‘programme’ country ireland
they are destroying ordinary families daily
happy christmas
Much like the US, Greece seems to be evolving into a 3 class society. The FILTHY RICH, the Very Well Off and the “peasants”. The middle class shrinks daily.