Germans push for a 50% haircut on Greek bonds in spite of French protests yet the Germans are being targeted for hatred by the Greeks.....
"Adolf Merkel": Presenting The Greek Gratitude For The 50% Debt Haircut
Idiot Greeks. They literally think everybody can work for the government, so the entrepeneurs leave.
I can't understand any of this shit for all the economic lingo. Give me an infograph.
It would be extremely surprising to see anything resembling "gratitude" from the part of the Greeks towards Germany. The people might not be wise enough to discern the truth from the esoteric babble of the economists, but it knows that the EU and Germany are the same thing, and that the reason they must suffer under the yoke of austerity is that Germany's interests are at stake. Causation is now something far from their minds; only intellectuals care about discovering the original cause of things, and in any case it's not as if there are any innocents in this story. What matters to the Greeks is that the things they've been told to feel entitled to have been swept away from their view for at least as long as their lifetimes are concerned; that real poverty is not only a possibility but a daily reality coming at them with the strength of karma; that national sovereignty, popular representation and all the nice fables they thought they could take for granted are being shown as the absurdist jokes they are, in front of the entire world.
It would be more rational to destroy the enemy within and put one's place in order before lashing out at the spectre of Germanic imperalism, but that's just how democracies are supposed to function, as an escape valve for the irrational impulses of the masses. The people in itself is incapable of any deliberate action, so it's only option is to charge at acceptable targets like a bull on the arena. Hurling abuse at Nazis (as Hollywood continually demonstrates) is as easy as voting, while replacing a corrupt system with a better one isn't, unless someone figures out how to paints the bull's eye on the governing class.