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Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
DON'T WEAR THE HAIRSHIRT....
So the finance minister of Luxembourg opens the door a crack and suggests that if Greece has a government, there might be room to address the concerns of the great swath of voters who question the merits of austerity. I applaud him. This is the dialogue of democracy and peaceful evolution. Austerity isn't working. It never does. We humans can make things. We humans can do things. We human can go places. All this activity produces wealth. All this activity needs hope, belief. There is no hope and no belief in severe austerity. Austerity and piety are regressive instincts and most human progress is born of optimism and enthusiasm. No hairshirts here please. Let's talk. Let's adjust. Let's progress.
Gray Dourman
www.magichelix.com
Labels:
Austerity,
democracy,
Finance Ministers,
Greece,
Luxembourg
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
FREE MARKET VS THE PEOPLE

Greece is just one illustration of the pervasive cynicism of greed. Not only the corruption and deceit engendered by tax evading freebooters but also the way banks have used money provided by beleaguered taxpayers to attack the very governments who provided them with the bailouts. Fraud at Lehmans, fraud in Milan, Madoff, shrugged off as just so much financial engineering. And what do these greed sated goofballs buy with their booty...yatchs, women, diamonds etc. etc. etc. Will they pass through the eye of the needle. I think not.
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