Greece 'far right' rejects austerity after 'socialists' capitulate!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Austerity:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/athens-in-flames/100244/

Austerity? More like "discovering there is no such thing as a free lunch."

No. It's clear to anybody who isn't already a delusional market-cultist that the Greek government is complicit in the sadistic punishment of its own people. They're, among other things, firing tens of thousands of people. Not as an unfortunate side-effect. As the whole point.

Then again, you might not mind that, since you are on the record in this thread as exhorting the Athens Police to massacre civilians. Which, come to think of it, is probably being floated as an entirely proportionate response to the threat to The Markets.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Austerity:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/athens-in-flames/100244/

Austerity? More like "discovering there is no such thing as a free lunch."

No. It's clear to anybody who isn't already a delusional market-cultist that the Greek government is complicit in the sadistic punishment of its own people. They're, among other things, firing tens of thousands of people. Not as an unfortunate side-effect. As the whole point.

Then again, you might not mind that, since you are on the record in this thread as exhorting the Athens Police to massacre civilians. Which, come to think of it, is probably being floated as an entirely proportionate response to the threat to The Markets.

Government officials in Greece engaged in Enron-style accounting fraud to get into the Euro, and then they continued the facade for years and years until, like Bernie Madoff, they could no longer keep up the illusion. Government officials are solely responsible for the state of Greece. Government officials thought they could essentially lie, cheat and steal with impunity. They were wrong. There is no free lunch, and nobody is going to just hand them a "do-over" slate, especially not the people of the nations who were betrayed by Greece. The other members of the EU trusted Greece, and Greece betrayed that trust from the beginning and just kept increasing the severity of the deception until the house of cards fell down. Actions have consequences. The Greeks made their bed, and now they're going to have to sleep in it.

Blaming somebody/something else for your mistakes/problems is the easiest thing in the world to do, but the free market/bankers have nothing to do with any of this. This is merely an example of government corruption and its consequences.

You have such contempt for the Greek government, yet you have exhorted the Greek government to kill Greek civilians, publicly, in this thread.

Just pointing that out. Not to you, but to the rest of the forum should they be interested in this fact.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In any case, the Greek government now needs to maintain law and order or risk the entire nation going up in flames. The protesters are using deadly force, and have actually killed innocent women in banks, and anytime protesters use deadly force you need to respond with deadlier force.

Small gubmint!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In any case, the Greek government now needs to maintain law and order or risk the entire nation going up in flames. The protesters are using deadly force, and have actually killed innocent women in banks, and anytime protesters use deadly force you need to respond with deadlier force.

Small gubmint!

So if you were in Greece, you would rather see anarchy than restoration of law and order?

Greek law and order right now is effectively a state of dictatorship, with neoliberal punishment ideology and rightist sadism as the dictators.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You object to the "Your Lordship"? Because that's the only name I've been calling you.

The only thing he does not like about "Your Lordship" is the fact that only you refer to him as it. He secretly fantasizes about becoming the next Colonel Kurtz.

Be careful with the intentionally obscure movie references.  People might start to think you are a jmfcst sock.

The idea that Apocalypse Now is obscure makes me sad.