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In reply to the discussion: The Crisis In Europe Has Only Just Begun [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)You want to continue to punish the Greek people until their economy is 100% wrecked and they are forced to sell all of their valuable assets, the things that could actually bring money into the country.
The real question is, what to do with the situation now. And the answer that you and others come up with seems to be, punish those who had the least to do with it, while allowing the movers and shakers and the well-to-do to continue with their own lavish lifestyles and suffer ZERO consequences. Have you heard about anyone going after the architects of Greece's initial deception? No? Me either.
Please spell out your answer to how Greece will be able to pay back the new loan. If they already CANNOT pay the current debt (as the IMF has stated), then how is going further into debt going to help? Continuing austerity measures only weakens their economy, further eroding their ability to generate money to repay the loans; and the loans do nothing, nada, zero, zilch for the Greek economy. They go directly to the banks so they can continue to pretend they are 100% covered -- i.e., to falsify their real standing.
Disaster capitalism, coming soon to a country near you.