The 7M who stayed home..what do you suppose was their demographic? Millenials?
Paris was full of Vichy sympathisers!
As an actual boor, I resemble that remark.
The whole world was and still is.
That's your agenda. My post had exactly nothing to do with Jewish people.
Now that's some serious projection right there...
Coordination of fiscal policy is essential to the EU - or any currency union. Maybe they should not have joined. They knew what they were doing.
That may be true, but now their well being is or should be a goal of the EU. If it isn't, then the EU organization is being predatory against its own members and that's no way to run a railroad.
I do not agree. Certainly a situation like Greece needs to be managed and does present predatory opportunities (though much less so than our S&L crisis, home mortgage bubble, etc) but you cannot let fiscal policy diverge wildly with a single currency. The fault in this matter was with the Greek government. The aftermath is what we are discussing - not the cause.
Yet the accepted solutions are against EU rules.
It has nothing to do with that. Finance is finance in regard to a currency union. They should leave the union then - which would be about ten times worse. It was not the EU that killed these people, it was budgetary mischief of their government that got them here. If they were not in the currency union they would have devalued their currency to about 1/100th of the prior value. You don't think that would hurt people? The austerity programs are designed to protect the Euro. It isn't just banks and bondholders - its hundreds of millions of people who have all their assets valued in Euros. Greece fucked those people over by fiscal irresponsibility prior to the crisis. I'm very sorry it is happening - but it did. Saying that the banks and bondholders are doing this to make money ignores every non-Greek Euro user. How would you like it if Illinois' fiscal irresponsibility for the last ten years destroyed 99% of your savings?
How would you like it if you were Greek and you're unemployed and watching your country being destroyed to make sure Germany can keep exporting BMWs?
Aside from the false analogy, I would not like it. I did not vote for their government - they did.
How sure are you that the EU economies that need to deficit spend and can't are not suffering under a horrendously destructive economic policy that's been shown definitively NOT TO WORK, just so the strong export need economy can continue to profit?