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In reply to the discussion: Germans warns Greece: no cuts, no aid [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Greeks are the best-educated national group in the world.
Greece has resources.
Greece can become sovereign and independent.
Sovereignty begins with control over the issuance and also the devaluation if necessary of the currency. Countries in Greece's dilemma have often been able to deal with the crisis by way of devaluation. That option must be returned to Greece.
One aspect of achieving sovereignty is the importance of immediately becoming food self-sufficient - something that Greece no longer has, but can still restore. This will involve repopulating the many underpopulated villages and the many farmlands that have lain fallow for years.
You're the one who interprets this one aspect of what I said, meaning the revival of this vital sector, as meaning all Greeks must become shepherds and fishermen. (The latter is unlikely, given the global disaster of the fisheries which is most acute in the Mediterranean.)
Yours is a typical metropolitan, consumerist, globalist attitude.
Insofar as many Greeks share it, that's too bad for them.
Because right now the choices are between hardship under conditions of vassalage and generations of debt slavery, which your incredible ideology characterizes as a solution (for whom? your friends at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank?) and hardship as a sovereign nation that can remake itself.
Greeks voted against your austerity plan, sorry, fail.
Your condescending pretense that Greeks are childish and longing for the days of 10 years ago is wearing thin, and highly insulting to the Greek people. As the vote shows, Greeks are voting against the bogus "American Dream" system, and this trend will continue as they awaken to the new realities -- and make the choice between vassalage to the European Illusion version of American Dream, or sovereignty. Easy choices are done.