In this reuters article featured on the Irish Times website a poll has revealed that more than 60% of Greece’s population do not want ‘bailout’ money from the EU and the IMF to pay off their climbing debt and to stabilise the countries economy.
I wonder why they don’t want this money, this gift from their chums in those bastians of neoliberalism. Well, reuters sure as hell aren’t going to tell you. Instead of doing an actual bit of journalism and telling you what the IMF wants in return (if they were just helping out a pal these ‘negotiations’ wouldn’t take more than a day), reuters gives you a point by point on what this means for Greek politicians at the polls and where the opposition stand.
More and more I think that these ‘politics’ correspondents could easily request for a transfer to the sports desk, as they cover nothing more than probabilities, match results and MVP listings. There is nothing of note in this article. Why then did I bring it to your attention? Because it’s so damned bad. Have you tried finding any information on what the IMF or the EU want Greece to do to their economy? Speicifaclly? I have, and I can’t find a drumstick of information about it. Why should Greek people support this bail out of their tanked economy, caused by an upper class so removed from them they might as well be living in a different century (and some of them do judging by the market orgies they engage in)?
The terms being banded around like ‘cutbacks’,and ‘belt tightening’ are code for public service cuts, removing the state from providing any services and making ordinary people pay for health, education and whatever the corporations can get their hands on. It’s all about expanding markets folks, and this is a prime opportunity for foreign multinationals to ransack and control another country. Call it what you want, the Washington consensus, the shock doctrine, Greece is going to get it bad. That’s why there have been strikes, that’s why there is no public support. Would reuters report this? No. They just don’t want the money, plain and simple. Those feckless Greeks just won’t play ball, what’s wrong with them? Just bitter because they’re not the empire anymore.
As one posted on youtube commented on an accompanying reuters video
“Greece better hold its ankles, cause it’s gonna get fucked”. My sentiments exactly I’m afraid.
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