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

[stevenleser]

55. To folks who view this as an ideological war, they don't care about you. Sad to say.

I had an argument with one of these folks the other day and I mentioned the Greek people in my first comment and the other person talked about everything else other than the people for their first four comments and then finally deigned to talk about the Greek people as if it was a big annoyance. All of their other comments were ideological B.S. and accusations.

I would support any plan from any ideology that seemed halfway decent and well thought through, but that's the problem.

As Krugman noted, it's pretty obvious that Tsipras and the rest of Syriza don't have a plan. Krugman was actually more gracious about it saying:

"You don’t have to love Syriza, or believe that they know what they’re doing — it’s not clear that they do, although the troika has been even worse — to believe that European institutions have just been saved from their own worst instincts."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/europe-wins/?_r=0

This is a pretty serious situation to be in for a group that doesn't know what they are doing and has no plan that they can articulate to anyone.

The ideologues do not care about the people in Greece or the people anywhere else in the Eurozone. They only care that the "troika" doesn't get its way.