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Two-Thirds Of Greeks Say Adopting Euro Has Not Benefited Country
Five years of austerity, higher taxes, deep cuts in public spending, record suicide rates, and homelessness beyond anyone's worst forecasts... is it any wonder that, as Gallup reports, a majority of adults in the country - 55% - said in a poll that they think converting from the Greek drachma to the euro in 2001 has harmed Greece.
Perhaps most shocking is that 34% believe it has "benefited" Greece... perhaps that is the third of Greeks who have emigrated.. .or hold high office?
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Yet they want more Euro.
...and they want ro keep the euro as a currency. Even though a devaluable currency would give them a fighting chance.
They aren't always the sharpest knives in the drawer, them Greeks. But then again......nor are the masses anywhere in the world. Muppet Power !
Rule of thumb - in politics, something being sold as "it will benefit you" most certainly will not.
2/3rd say it has not benefited them....that really leaves us asking...is 1/3rd of Greece on drugs?
1/3rd of Greece is an entrenched oligarchy that has benefited quite well from Euro integration.
In the immortal words of JP Morgan "I got mine, fuck yours".
the euro benefited
1 the bribed leaders
2 the jewish bankers
3 the mongrel hordes invading all of europe in an organized takeover.
Is it really that high though? Perhaps so....I got no clue. 10% sounds believable, but 1/3 is a very high percentage for any oligarchy anywhere. Most parasites need a much higher host community.
The sychophants that serve the oligarchs know very well who butters their bread...
10% Kings. 20% Aristocrats. 80% Serfs.
You're right but part of that 10% includes the mass media so the other 23% will be those who believe whatever the TV tells them.
The big thing is that 23% used to be more like 60%.
At least 2/3rds of greeks are actually smart enough to realize this. Take a survey of americans asking them if leaving the gold standard has benefitted them, I doubt 1/10th of them would answer 'no'. Hell, maybe 1/4 would even know enough about it to give a coherent answer one way or another
And can we please stop calling this shit fuckin austerity? their debt goes up every year and they keep borowing money. Thats hardly austerity
Euro gave you the ability to get in a debt-free time period and for immense spending along with other economies that wasn't in the same level with you!
Eventually those other economies with ways known & unknown beat you up in exports while your imports was on a crazy rise!
Now you're a debt slave and i ask you... would you leave your debt of XXX.XXX Billions while 1 euro = 1.12 dollars or would you go back to Drachma and then you would be around 500 drachma's to 1 euro with the same shit exports and immense imports although somewhat decreased nowadays!
You see... its something more than life and death situation here ;p (Same goes for foreign banks that own that very debt/securities etc etc)
MAKE IT life and death and they will figure it out. Hunger, like mortal combat, improves decision-making.
Greek votes mean nothing, they can cry all they want, at the end, they kept begging for more loans, begging for more leaders who will sell them out on a drop of a dime. They all deserved whatever they get, to be a slave for the next 500 years or forever!
a brilliant kabuki theatre Brussels bankers knew at inception that by blowing bubbles of debt into the second stringers that they would eventually default and that they would pick up real assets for pennies on the dollar.Greece is first,Portugal,Spain and Italy will follow
its the central bankers (jewish) way, enslave a free people to debt printed out of thin air, capture all assets through boom and bust it creates. that's why the honest money system set up by genius patriots for we the people governed by we the people though the house of representatives had to go in 1915
gosh... you think?
Inflation has been crazy eversince, wages have almost remained stagnant and everything turned into a bubble.
And oh... Europe is a centerpiece of dictatorship run by politicians who never got elected but who run the show.
We'll need a new french revolution if we all want it back.
They should've let it stay for the weekend instead of adopting it.
Two thirds state the obvious with the remaining one third clinically brain dead.
After abandoning the gold standard, the nationalization of banking and credit via central banks and FIAT currencies and after setting governments all around Europe without separation of powers, 2 in 3 Greeks think that maintaining the Gregorian calendar has not benefited their country.
Not like it matters. 2/3 of Greeks still trade in units of Goat.
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...and yet they were always in favor of euro instead of drachma.
Perhaps most shocking is that 34% believe it has "benefited" Greece...
Probably government workers.
Yep, Fell into the Central Banking scam hook line and sinker
Tsipras is set to loose next election, and no clear majority will come out of this.
So Greek crisis is back next summer
"and homelessness beyond anyone's worst forecasts.."
How exactly do they accurately measure homelessness with thousands of new refugees arriving every day?
Hopefully this is a sign the Greeks are waking up from the media's pro-EU hypnosis.