Reply #53: Your understanding is wrong. But it's what you are supposed to

[sabrina 1]

believe, just as we were supposed to believe that it was the home buyers who crashed the economy here. The working class is to blame for the corruption that brought down the world economy! That's the rightwing propaganda that seems to be working even on progressive boards like this.

Greece, like the U.S., had enough money to bail out their banks, now they want to make the working class pay the debt the government ran up.

This is an attempt to slam social programs, to attack the 'left' or any kind of New Deal policies because when the elderly, disabled and the sick get some help from the government, that money is not going to the elite.

Greece should have refused this bailout from the IMF, kicked out the government that got them into this mess and then with the people's support, worked on collecting taxes that are due, and make cuts where necessary until the debt is paid off. They should leave the EU so that they can get back to exporting their own goods without restrictions.

Venzuela paid off its debt to the World Bank and are now free from that oppression, which is one of the major reasons why the West, Global Capitalists, hate Chavez. He started a movement away from the decades long history of Sought American countries being under the thumb of Global Capitalists.

Maybe you should listen to what the PEOPLE of Greece (and other countries) are saying themselves. They are refusing to pay for the bailing out of the failed banks. I wish the American people would learn something from them.