How do YOU think Hillary will react to the Greek election results?

[Ken Burch]

68. I think the U.S. should make sure that U.S.-owned companies doing business in Greece

start damn well paying the taxes the OWE to Greece, rather than continuing to dodge them...AND that the U.S. should use its influence to get Germany and the EU to back off of vicious austerity demands that, essentially, the entire Greek social welfare system must be demolished and that pensions for elderly Greeks should essentially be abolished(you are aware, I assume, that a Greek pensioner just burned himself to death because the EU austerity demands reduced his pension to a level too low for him to live with dignity...and that it's like that others may join him in that choice, or, frankly, simply starve to death in unheated or uncooled apartments, just to appease the financial vampires who are bleeding Greece to death).

And if the Greek industrial/financial class stages a capital strike, I hope that President Obama will defend the democratic rights of the Greek people and support them if they do what they will then be morally entitled to do, and seize control of the Greek economy, running it by themselves for the good of all. He won't, of course...but that's what a decent human being with a backbone WOULD do.

AND the U.S. should seize any and all assets of all the Greek multimillionaires who plunged their country into this fiscal crisis through their refusal to contribute their fair share to social upkeep. This was their fault, the fault of the ND government that let costs get hopelessly out of hand for the Athens Olympics, and the fault of the international financial sharks who made Greece the victims of their bad loan bundling and other predatory practices. The workers and the poor of Greece bear no responsibility for the shortfall whatsoever. Indeed, before the banks and the Germans invented this "crisis", the Greek government ran one of the most frugal social welfare systems in all of Europe.

If Germany and the EU get their way on all of this, Greece will have no reason to ever call an election again, because it will be forced to be Mega-Thatcherite for the rest of eternity. It simply won't matter which faction of elitists administers the perpetual sacrifice and misery. And that will create the situation the wealthy, all over the world, actually want-freedom FROM democracy.

I'm not, of course, surprised, that, once again, you've taken the side of the rich against common humanity. You'll insist that "progressive-led" austerity is different than right-wing austerity...and you'll look delusional to any Greek person who might be reading this, or anyone else who is losing all their dignity and hope in the name of "paying the banks what they're owed". Typical.