You can also see it like this: he gave voice to the people, and accepted to step aside when pressured by the powers-that-be, instead of stubbornly clinching to his post.
And you can't win elections by promising not to pay back your debts and accuse everyone else of trying to destroy the democracy. New government does not mean you can erase your debt. And the fact that you won the elections by telling fairytales does not mean that someone else will pay for the fairytale. That is borderline insanity. Democracy is responsibility of the successive government for the deeds of the previous one. May that be debt or a warcrime.
you can't borrow, get 100 EU billions in haircuts few years ago, have monthly salaries in the administration and bureaucracy between 1.5-1.7 monthly, get 60 EU billions 5 years ago and not expect to default with 90 EU billions only in salaries in public sector. And those were only salaries expenses. Incompetent, malignant, and corrupt bureaucracy is Greek's heritage. No one will pay for that. When they borrow money in the eurozone they borrow money from middle class people who put that money into the bank. Then they call elections, and now are in recession, even though months before the elections they were on the upward line. They were already in the state that could service their own budget without borrowing and on top of that pay 3.4% interest to the creditors. The issue was that they didn't wanted to pay that 3.4%. All of this we see today is that 3.4%. And of course an insane idea that communism will rule the EU. Once more. He is an asshole, a person who calls the ordinary people who borrowed money to the Greeks for years terrorists and nazists. Good riddance.
Do the "click here for free ipad" ads give voice to the people too? Because that's what he did by giving false hopes. And then you congratulate him for not taking any responsibility for what will follow. Let me remind you that his 5 months as a minister were spent doing nothing , absolutely nothing ( yeah, he hired back 50 cleaning ladies for his ministry, that takes us into negative territory.)
Assumes the will of a single man would have been enough to rescue an entire economy based on what looks to outsiders like an ingrained culture of laziness
gonvaled|10 years ago
You can also see it like this: he gave voice to the people, and accepted to step aside when pressured by the powers-that-be, instead of stubbornly clinching to his post.
He is no politician. We need more of those.
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