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Prometheus Bound

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34. "...those who were out to get him--for his anti-"austerity" views--failed"

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #8)

Fri May 18, 2012, 07:25 PM

May 2012

I don't understand how you can call that man "anti-austerity". He was exactly the opposite. He was basically the architect of Greece's austerity policies: massive spending cuts, widespread privitization, structural reforms, and so forth.

He commented in speeches on the importance of considering workers, but it was just so much bullshit. The austerity he demanded from Greece was all anti-worker. He did what the IMF has always done, demanding severe austerity from terrified politicians in return for an additional 3 months' survival.

He was a fraud.

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