Buffoon leaders... and how we milked the EU, by veteran Greek columnist and commentator

[Munificence]

23. I agree with you

on everything but this:

"Making retires suffer instead of prosecuting the corrupt politicians and banksters is just stupid."

Just like in the U.S our retirees have benefited from their "set up". Our retirees and anyone over 50 years old in both countries have lived well beyond their means, living in comfort as self centered individuals passing the problems onto our youth vs dealing with it....ah, it's all perfect until the day that it isn't.

There was a time when the older established folks would never sell out their younger brethren and that was perfect until the day it wasn't.

Greek debt is not sustainable....and ours is? Now you think about $18 trillion in debt as a nation. Has anyone ever considered for a single moment how that would be paid down? Just think of the money that has been stolen from us just by financing this debt. Ignorance I say. We like to act like Clinton had a surplus and we are ignorant to the fact that he started raiding social security, that was no surplus but we continue to push these lies. When have we ever seen our debt paid down?

At least the Greeks will have support, when this comes to the U.S the entire thing will blow up. Make no mistake about it, we are just as bad off as Greece.... however we've used the printing press to double down and fool folks into thinking that it's not so bad.

I'm slowly transitioning over to becoming a realist. There are real problems out there that need to be dealt with, but all that has to be done to keep us ignorant are the distractions. But as long 80-90% of our society continues to wallow in their ignorance then everything will be just fine, until it isn't.

It's all based on lies, has been for 30-40 years. We hold no one accountable for their actions these days, we let them (politicians, banskters) rob us blind. Our retirees set back and let it develop into this over a few decades as they were promised the "good life", and really not giving a good god damn about the opportunities of our younger generation.

It's time we all wake up, this division among political parties and individuals is nothing but a game to keep us distracted from the real world problems.