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Lifestyles Of The Not So Austere & Socialist: Greek FinMin Edition
As the Greek people live in perpetual fear of financial ruin and are subjected, on a near hourly basis, to rumors about just what kind of humiliation they may be forced to endure next in order to insure that Christine Lagarde gets the money she needs to prop up Ukraine for another couple of months, Yanis Varoufakis isn’t about to roll over and allow his people to drown in despair. On the contrary, the finance minister apparently believes the best way to restore the faith is to show the Greek people just how good life could be by staging a not very austere photoshoot…
Yanis enjoys the the piano…
...and modest lunches...
...and hanging out on the veranda with the (very happy) wife...
...and even though he occasionally has to slum it in economy class…
...overall life is very good…
So Greece, as you face the possibility that your salaries will be suspended and your pension funds plundered, take solace in the fact that you can live well vicariously through your elected officials.
Not all Greeks are particularly amused by the pictures. Here's one reaction via Keep Talking Greece:
“No, No, No! That was unacceptable!”
“What did he want to demonstrate? No, no, no… And the pictures with Danai? Holding her up with his arms?!!!”…
“At her age in a mini dress? I couldn’t believe what I saw this morning on the internet,” “What was the purpose of such photo shooting? Is he the minister of a life-style country?”
Predictably, Twitter is having a field day.
Greek finim #Varoufakis poses for @ParisMatch in an all but austere photo shoot. Pics go viral. Twitter laughs. pic.twitter.com/GbwlhdYKep
— Loukia Gyftopoulou (@loukia_g) March 13, 2015
????? ???? ???? ??? yanis #varoufakis #parismatch #litosvios #Syriza pic.twitter.com/sIj9HADPo6
— Tsaprrr News (@tsaprrr) March 13, 2015
#Varoufakis #parismatch pic.twitter.com/NNtqMW8nsJ
— g gprovopo (@gprovopo) March 13, 2015
#Varoufakes #Varoufakis #?????????? #????????? #MediaWhore pic.twitter.com/FBgHSss71I
— Hera (@theetikigoddess) March 13, 2015
“@Berlaymonster: Life's good!
#Varoufakis #parismatch pic.twitter.com/FmUv88wBTh”
— George Karmokolias (@TheKarmiDance) March 13, 2015
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"Easy is the descent into hell, for it is paved with good intentions".
John Milton
Paradise Lost, c.1667
Even though he is a marxist stooge, that's not a grand piano he's playing-(yamaha?). Within the reach of the middle class. Looks like a Bb chord to me.
To qualify for fighting the Greek cause, you need to be living out of your car, otherwise you're fake. Pleeeeease.
Can we keep our focus on the real mutha fuckers here.
Free Jon Corzine.
Give me an f'ing break. Jamie Dimon's pool boy lives this well. This article and most of these comments are BS. Go back to junior high, and grow up.
Good comment. Rulers will always live well, its the policies and the amount of corruption that counts.
I suppose some will ONLY be happy if he is living under a freeway overpass-THEN he is a man of the people! From the looks of it WE live as good or better than he does...and my partner is unemployed
Where is Janis? He has to way in?
Man I want to punch that guy in his face. He looks like such a douchebag. Hang him and donate his wife to the Troika to ahem, service Greek debts.
I thought they all ate Gyros. WTF? Fish?
So I guess Gyros isn't Greek after all, it must be like Chop Suey, some fake shit they make up for the dumb Yankees.
Kinda like all the fake posing Yanis and his ole lady did in the pics. Stupid people (no matter what nationality or ideology) they really eat that shit up. I got a few nibbles but nobody hit it.
Ah well, other ponds ;-)
Varoufakis is a globalist...
Check out "Wayne Madsen"...
He says Varoufakis is a trojan horse.
None of this shit happens by chance my friend.
Greek Maoists?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-12/greece-passes-law-plunder-pensi...
LOL.....yeah, probably nothing compared to Tsipras. Hey, they are just regular working folk like all of us. I bet his travel tab in Germany was a real doosey too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0qlHHvELU
Oh, the oligarchic nerve of this man! Drinking wine with his bread and salad, enjoying his condo, flying business class... I wouldn't be surprised if the fu@#er played golf.
that photo is in economy while going to Brussels he and all the others of SYRIZA fl economy only and have no goverment cars...apart from that he is an oligarch because he failed the advice of the PR company to pose next to a broken car, dressed in rags, while eating out of a can of beans with his wife smiling toothless next to him so you can "accept" him like you do with your own leaders.
You idiots are fucking too much! Look at the size of the room he's playing a cheap piano in. Oh shit, he's eating salad, bread, fish, and sausage, and... Drinking wine?' Fuck, no Greeks live so luxuriantly! He has enough money to fly coach? He loves his wife? What in the fuck is lavish in these pictures?! You cunts sound like a buncha broke assed, envious, sex starved motherfuckers. I pray for the end of America and especially is laughable armchair patriots. Fuck you all!
Excuse me bro...well said (partially) but that's no sausage...that's yummy traditional octopus dish.
Context is everything. Unlike the typical woman who voted for Syriza, Danae Stratou did not have to give a BBBBTCM to a German tourist just to make rent and see that her children ate something that night, because neither she nor her husband have been otherwise gainfully employed in months. No sir. She's the trophy wife of the Most Interesting Man in the World, so she is.
Look at how fucking glamorous she gets to be while prole women sell themselves and their brothers kill themselves and their whole families before the loan sharks do it for them! See the nice dinner she and her man get to enjoy while in the real world most Greeks have given up eating meat and may soon start running out of basic staples because nobody will give Greek firms credit.
And Yanis? Look at him! Did you know how proud he is of his fine-looking wife?
Nobody finds the Most Interesting Man in the World shtick funny any more. We're too much? This is disgusting while people are starving.
I may be incorrect, but didn't this guy move up from Australia where he was probably making a helluva lotta money? Maybe that was someone else, I don't really remember. What gets me is the insults and shit talk about this guys opulent lifestyle. Also, you said sthg about a Greek mother having to service German tourists, I assume sexually, to feed her family. Well my friend, the world is filled with few sharp people, and mostly cattle. Fuck that Greek mother, and her piece of shit husband. Being broke doesn't mean you have to throw your dignity in the shitter. Greece has unlimited coastline. Take your family to a secluded beach, camp out, and fish. Eat the fish and sell the surplus. What in the fuck is so bad about that?!?! Greeks have fished forever. Anyone can dig up the cash for a tent, fishing poles, and bus fare. Fuck the Greek and american cunts insulting this guy.
Don't stress bro...for most of the Anglophones and their byproducts the dream of getting to bed with a Greek woman, is just that...a Dream. Look at the Kim Kardashian myth...an average Greek looking woman that you can find any day scrolling the streets of Athens is their sex symbol. And she is not even Greek.
Don't stress...they know that in their English speaking countries every single woman they come across, that is of Greek blood is steaming hot and they cant touch.
Keep dreaming of Greek prostitutes boys !!!!!!
And while we're at fuck you too
I challenge your subliminal message to post one proof of Greek women prostitution them selves... here on this thread. A photo of the streets of Athens, an article, even a post from a blog or tourist website.
Learn something my friend...Greek women will rather commit suicide then prostitute them selves for the reasons you are stating.
At the same time rest assure that our women will fornicate anytime and anyone they like without being some sort of nuns...but never for what you are saying.
Sex and prostitution for us has a cultural meaning that you can not understand unless yoy are Greek.
XOX
Excuse me friend. I thought you said that. However I did read something from golden dawn alluding to that.
Have seen quite a few of them taking dollars on video nude web services, where they are more than happy to do anal penetration with their toys. Just go to livejasmin and look up greek language spoken.
oh really?...yes they are pure Greeks from Lithuania, Georgia and Estonia. The only Greek woman you will find on the internet will be on zoo.gr and she will offer you to she her tits if you go buy her a 10 euro scratch credit card...after you provide her with the number she will open her camera and you will see her boyfriends pipi...that's what Greek women do !!!
Life under the "institutions" is good.
What do you expect from a Soros crony? Fairness?
SO WHAT?
Sad thing is that he and his wife would give that rag sheet ParisMatch an interview.
Shows how uncool they are.
Oh - and - women with legs like that should hide them under long skirts...
Guess they suffer from warped self image.
She's OK. I'd do her.
Of course I am over 60, you younger guys might have higher ass-pirations.
$$$$$$$
What's this about?
I do exactly what he does every day and Im in debt up to my ears. SO?
You foreigners should learn from us something, its called...live long by not stressing.
Remember Zorba The Greek?...your fathers do...that's what he does when he is sad...DANCE!
I just don't see what is th ebig deal here.
The airplane photo is coach, the guys hugs his wife, has a glass of wine and....
So what.
did I miss something?
Squid
THE PIANO !!!! The guy has a fucking upright piano that you can buy for around 3500 dollars. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/yamaha-upright-piano
ZH is trying to bash everyone in the ideological spectrum, but sometimes get off base when it's about socialists (their worst nightmare is probably to be called socialists given their stance on the financial system, but strangely, they often pick the wrong targets, while real corrupted socialists are not scarce). They could have talked about the Fin Min who hid his assets in 2012, this was a real story, no clue why they published this non story.
He flys commercial, coach
He flys commercial, lives in a pretty small place, plays a piano in the corner of a room ... My house looks bigger than his ... Bravo Mr. Ministers!
The Greek Finance Minister created his belongings whilst in Australia long before Greece went bankcrupt. This should have been stated in your article.
Reporting that Greeks are facing a possibiltiy of salaries to be suspended and pension funds plundered was an austerity measure that the previous Greek government was contemplating for 2015 and which the new government put a halt to. This also should have been stated in your article.
Sorry, but your articles are no longer credible to be read. I remove my membership as of now.
Probably one of the most ridiculous articles seen on ZH over the years (it happens to the best, no offence). Except the piano, what is outrageous ? I see what should look like a middle class household (and yes, I believe middle class people should be allowed to play the piano, and even own one...), otherwise I did not know I'm also part of the 1 % for eating such "opulent meal" and living in a small place that does not look like a dumpster. I have no sympathy anymore for the guy since SYRIZA flip flopping, but let's be real pls. What do you expect from him, living in a car ?
Well, as far as I am concerned, this is truly a "nothing, NOTHING, to see, move along" tabloid-like poste. Tylers.. you can de better, yes you can...
+1
Lucky ladd has a seat on a plane. I suppose it's one up from wax and feathers.
Zerohedge misery addicts would prefer it if he was the one looking in the dumpster.....
it would make all them feel like he is beneath them...even better.....
The guy is trying to stick it to Troika and help his country...give him a break.
Bollox
What kills me about ZH comments is.....it is as if they (ZH commentators) could do a better job.....
the place is fucked up...it is a big MESS.....none of you people reading this blog could help.
You are all back seat drivers......
What nonsense...
Varoufakis was financial advisor for the hugely successful Valve corporation, yet he returned to Greece with the sole purpose of ending austerity and freeing Greece from its debt. He hates the Euro and has no qualms about calling himself a socialist and Marxist. Should he fake poverty like a hypocrite?
The Euro-elite would like to get Varoufakis sacked and Syriza replaced with a compliant moderate party, so they would enslave Greece easier. Making a big deal about someone's personal life helps that cause.
he plays the piano, he eats and he has a wife (he's human, crusify him!)
Meet the new boss,
same as the old boss.
Who in the fuck actually uses Twitter --- other than TWATS
PS this is a shit article --- do you expect him to be eating dog food?
Some perspective:
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.564465
"I think I've solved the riddle of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hedonism. He hates – perhaps even loathes – the journalists who are hounding him, who keep on complaining about such prime ministerial expenses as pistachio ice cream (10,000 shekels – $2,846); a double bed for a flight to London; a luxury hotel suite; a water utility bill of 80,000 shekels ($22,766) for the Netanyahus’ private home in Caesarea; scented candles (6,000 shekels – $1,707); ergonomic exercise bikes; a step counter; a standard breakfast costing 213 shekels ($61) per person; and the almost negligible fact that the expenses for the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem are nearly double what they were when Ehud Olmert was PM."
My only objection to this photo spread, is the timing.
While its not Versailles, the whole meme of the photo shoot seems to scream "let them eat cake".
I don't think Varoufakis and his wife should be eating out of dumpsters, however, considering that a lot of fellow countrymen are eating shit, this is just the wrong kindo of P.R. at wrong time.
Just as bad as Obama and family photos in Hawaii...
A classic piano $5,000
A plentiful dinner $300
A house with a view to the greek ancient monuments $500,000.00
A trip to meet the "institutions" $300
Varoufakis trolling the greek people PRICELESS!!!
Umm, if you're trying to show us how 'materialistic' the guy is, you've failed.
There's nothing "oligarchal" in any of those pics...sorry. You'll have to do better than that. Although there are some who try to imply that having a roof over your head, food on the table, and a pretty wife are sure signs of a lifestyle of luxury, there's nothing in these photos that should be out of reach for the average Greek.
But obviously this article was geared towards those who think all the Greeks should be eating out of dumpsters and selling their daughters to pay the electric bill.
Why not show a picture of Schauble eating tuna out of a can, to show how the poor Germans are suffering because the Greeks are living so high off the hog at their expense?
Living in an APARTMENT? Eating REAL FOOD, with his WIFE? Who does this guy think he IS anyway?
It's prolly photo shop like the rest. He's really dining on Spam and water. Only believe 1% of what you see on the interwebs and that 1% is Mr. Panos. Photo shop has ruined any visual truth.
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Let them eat cake.
I have a feeling the photo shoot was primarily for the troika, to stuff it in their face...that all is well even under pressure to bend-a-knee to the troika.
Game of Thrones, and it may be a few seconds before midnight, at least for Greece and their government.
Jubilee or Reset may be next.
ahh...greece...one of the many welfare countries...a nice place to visit...but you wouldn't want to invest there. well...then again...its not really investing anymore its really more like gambling with bad odds...the feds the house and well your just being watched...anybody want to call...how about a raise...hmmm very quiet around here...wonder why everyone is running for the exits...did someone just yell FIRE !!
Show the excess of the Zero and his brood.
I damn near soiled myself seeing the dumpster diver in the background.
From star to douche bag in a few weeks.
The public perception change has been very interesting watch.
Wolfgang Schäuble knew who he was dealing with... as did DieselBoom.
Give a Marxist a little publicy/credibility and they blow themselves up... quickly.