Greek Referendum on IMF/Troika deal

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, this is depressing.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Kamnenos said he's had enough, and other Athens sources call the draft humiliating and disastrous.

Even German media - in this case Spiegel Online - calls the Eurogroup's proposal a "deliberate   humiliation of Greece", designed to make an agreement with the Greek government impossible.

Glad to see the German media is finally calling out this insanity, instead of encouraging it.

[Antonio the Sixth]

All this is utterly disheartening.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, at this point I could believe it. Doesn't make less sense than everything else.

[Antonio the Sixth]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/upshot/the-greek-deal-is-a-disaster-for-greece-and-maybe-for-europe.html

[Antonio the Sixth]

More proof that Germans are utterly delusional

[Antonio the Sixth]

How many years until Germany drop the EU pretense and starts calling EU the 4th Reich?

But don't you see? They're the real victims here. Those poor, poor Germans, robbed of their precious money by those lazy Greek moochers. And they even get insulted and called Nazis! This heartbreaking plight must stop.

#weareallgermans

[Antonio the Sixth]

How many years until Germany drop the EU pretense and starts calling EU the 4th Reich?

But don't you see? They're the real victims here. Those poor, poor Germans, robbed of their precious money by those lazy Greek moochers. And they even get insulted and called Nazis! This heartbreaking plight must stop.

#weareallgermans

According to opinion polls, 64 percent of Germans think Schäuble did a good job at the negotiations, and for Merkel that figure is 62 percent. (Source)

It's called democracy. The Syriza people have talked a lot about respecting democracy in the past days, but they need to understand that they are not the only democratically elected government in the EU. If the other Eurozone countries had held referendums on whether or not to approve the bailout, you can be sure that most Eurozone countries in Northern and Eastern Europe would have voted a strong #OXI to further bailouts.

The author's point is that the German people are suffering from collective delusion. These poll numbers just prove it further.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Is it asking too much of the Germans that they try to educate themselves about the economic and social ramifications of their policy? Or better yet, is it asking too much of the German media that they stop feeding their viewers/readers with jingoistic propaganda, and start documenting what's actually going on in Greece?

[Antonio the Sixth]

There's so much stupidity in this thread, that any debate would be superfluous.

I just hope that, if one of you preachers of good financial virtues ever find yourselves in debt, your creditors will show a bit more common sense that you do.