“We Embittered the People to Protect the Future of the Nation"

Mike Shedlock

If you want to understand the reason PASOK went down in flames in a crushing defeat in Greek elections, simply look at the arrogance and gall of party leader Evangelos Venizelos in a statement following the election.

“We embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation", said PASOK party leader and troika sponsored clown, Evangelos Venizelos.

Ekathimerini reports Election swing leaves Greece teetering.

Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management.

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Andy440 Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:58 PM

"We embittered the people to protect the future of the nation"...I can see how this Groucho Marx pseudo-stateman remark like that didn't play too well with the Greek people.

A more honest way of phrasing the remark would be: "By a mixture of ineptitude and greed, in cahoots with the International Bankers, we sold out our nation, sacrificed our future, and screwed our people." With the on-going assault on our currency in this country by the Federal Reserve, along with unscrupulous politicians in D.C. who are spending our children's future into financial slavery, the same sad song is about to be sung here...

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Joseph1790 Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:06 PM

Lack of Leadership. Enough said............................

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Snarkasterous1 Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:18 AM

These two quotes from the new "leadership" in Greece:

"All Greeks have to get to know each other again,”

“the disappointment of the Greek people for dead-end policies that have pushed them to the limits.”

...make perfectly clear just how bankrupt is that "leadership." If being forced to actually live within the means of the country is "pushing people to the limits," then the new government is clearly fantasist, as are most libbies.

This most recent rejection in Greece and France of the reality of their respective financial conditions will, in my opinion, accelerate the fragmentation of the EU. Hard-working, fiscally-responsible nations (and their citizens) will, eventually, throw off the yoke of subsidizing their spendthrift...

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Snarkasterous1 Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:20 AM

...libbie neighbors.

Eventually (hopefully, beginning in Nov 2012!) productive Americans will similarly reject the yoke imposed by libbie fantasists...and will rebel against being punished for their productivity in order to support parasites like the one dreaming about Obama paying her rent.

Sad to be a libbie....

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Blair31 Wrote: May 08, 2012 11:57 AM

Snark,

Greece, the birthplace of democracy, has returned to fascism and this time they don't have anyone as
bright and foresighted as Jonas Metaxis.

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Snarkasterous1 Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:17 AM

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para_dimz Wrote: May 08, 2012 10:04 AM

Nothing will resolve until a general default on debt teaches creditors to loan with much more caution, teaches people they have to pay for what they order and teaches government,rather constrains government from disrupting this natural order.
Get it in your head. All three parties to the fiasco have to get burned in order to set the arrangement between them rightly. If any one escapes, one of the other two will become embittered and one of the remaining will run to the fake rescue.

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Pistol Wrote: May 08, 2012 8:21 AM

It occurs to me that there is a power vacuum in Greece. Nature abhors a vacuum, and there always arises someone or something to fill it. I don't see anything positive to show up in Greece. Another Mussolini, maybe?

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johnm h Wrote: May 08, 2012 8:28 AM

We have ours. Why shouldn't Greece get another one?

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Pistol Wrote: May 08, 2012 9:38 AM

johnm

Mussolini made the trains run on time. The less apt Barry hasn't got that far yet.

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shubi_ Wrote: May 08, 2012 9:05 AM

Mussolini was in Italy.

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Pistol Wrote: May 08, 2012 9:36 AM

shubi, you cut me to the quick! You don't really think i thought iI Duce was Greek, do you? I know my memory gets a bit blurry at times, and i am always pleased with corrections, but Greek Mussolini??? I merely meant that conditions in Greece are quite close to the conditions that led to Mussolini in Italy. Hitler used many of Mussolini's ideas and took off from there.

There is some consolation in the final endings of these two monomaniacs. Pride surely goeth before a fall in their case. Our crooked pols, not being so overreaching, generally retire to a comfortable end, more's the pity.

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shubi_ Wrote: May 08, 2012 8:19 AM

The Euro is toast.

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johnm h Wrote: May 08, 2012 8:27 AM

For Europe's sake and freedom's let's hope so. It has already lasted longer than I thought it would.

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Dan107 Wrote: May 08, 2012 4:44 AM

Oddly enough, the Obama administration has focused on embittering his constituate, too? Only people with lust for power do things like that...

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