Stud/GIGS:
I would like to explain the problem to you both but I doubt you would listen because the facts are not something people are prepared to accept and I would be wasting my time! One thing I would say is that the plight of Greece was not the fault of the Greeks they were set up ......... like many other States around the world.
Try Googling
‘Global Research’ and then putting
‘Greek economic crisis’ in their search box ....... and there are about 100 articles explaining why it happened, what the problem is and will explain why Greece leaving the Eurozone and the EU ....... would be its salvation.
Austerity to repay IMF/ECB bank loans has damaged the economy, it has deflated salaries and wages, destroyed tens of thousands of jobs, tax receipts have plummeted, it has led to the premature death of thousands of Greeks and the result makes it even harder for Greece to pay its debts. Of the last bail-out tranche the Banks provided to Greece ...... 98% of it went straight back to the very same banks that made the loans (
mainly French and German) ..... it happens every time they make a loan, all that Greece and its people got was even more debt, more austerity and the loss of even more of its tangible wealth (
Assets) to foreign corporations and oligarchs, as the Banks sell off the country's assets. This debt is an ever increasing debt ...... it can never be repaid.
Just a random choice of a couple of those 100 or so articles:
Greece — The One Biggest Lie You Are Being Told By The MediaGreece did not fail on its own. It was made to fail.
Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much money and went broke; the generous banks gave them money, but Greece still can’t pay the bills because it mismanaged the money that was given. It sounds quite reasonable, right?
Except that it is a big fat lie … not only about Greece, but about other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland who are all experiencing various degrees of austerity. It was also the same big, fat lie that was used by banks and corporations to exploit many Latin American, Asian and African countries for many decades.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greece-the-one-biggest-lie-you-are-being-told-by-the-media/5460508
Debt and Austerity: Greece Continues to Be Sucked Dry – and Nobody Stops the “Economic Bloodletting”From the very beginning, when this trend of purposeful destruction of an entire population and her country became clear,
there was the one solution that would have salvaged Greece and make it a happy country again: Leave the Euro zone! – And if necessary even the European Union. But with indoctrinated fear of an uncertain future, with the proud notion of belonging to and remaining in the Eurozone – and with a purposeful neglect of the Syriza government informing the people with the truth about the debt-onslaught – nobody dared to question the government on why it defied the overwhelming people’s vote against the austerity packages in July 2015. – Sorry, it wasn’t ‘nobody’, but it wasn’t a critical mass, it wasn’t the right influential people to ask that question – and to oppose the government’s handling of Greece’s ‘crisis’, and why SYRIZA was working in connivance with the troika. Those who did ask were sidelined. They were not snotty enough wanting to stick to the fraudulent Euro.
(Varoufakis for example?)So – why stay in the EU and the Eurozone, when all indications point to another direction? The writing is clearly on the wall.
My appeal to the People of Greece, take BREXIT as an example; dare to say NO to the system that enslaves you. Greek – take back your national sovereignty, your national currency, make the Greek Central Bank Greek again, working for the Greek economy, with a public banking system and interest free loans, to re-launch the Greek economy! – And you will be fine and happy again in no more than 5 years. You – People of Greece – have all the stamina and resourcefulness to drive your country forward and into a prosperity ‘made in Greece’.http://www.globalresearch.ca/debt-and-austerity-greece-continues-to-be-sucked-dry-and-nobody-stops-the-economic-bloodletting/5538851
They can’t all be wrong!
This also explains why the EU Commission will do everything in its power to make Brexit as painful and as destructive as possible ...... make it an easy process and most of the EU countries would follow suit which IMO .... they will eventually!