deni wrote:@KMA: What would be life without some controversy?
Nothing wrong with controversy at all!
Here's some controversy for ya...
You take the roll of the ECB, the IMF, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the world bank, the troika (otherwise known as the Gambinos the Bonannos and the the Genovese crime family's), the Bank of England, The Federal Reserve, and everybody else that is rapping Greece (and the whole world). and i will take the roll of the Greek Govt....
All spoken with a Chicago/Italian criminal accent:
you, "Hey, Papandreou, i got some cash for ya ass!"
Spoken with a heavy Greek accent:
me as Papandreou, "Naw, i cant afford..."
you "hey, don't worry bout it! you can have the cash cheap!!"
me "WOW, you really are a buddy, thanks!"
you "hey, no problem Paps. anytime!"
Sometime later...
you "hey Paps, we need our money, no wot i'm saying?"
me "sorry man but i don't have the cash!
you "wot do you mean you don't have the cash? i want my frigging money NOW!"
tears well up in my eyes and i start sobbing, "we spent the money and don't have any to give you"
you "stop your crying or i'll shoot you in the head here and now!"
me "ok"
you, "since you can't pay i'll tell ya wot your gonna do"
me "ok!"
you, "get your ass on TV and tell the people they owe all this money and they have to pay or or..."
me "or what?"
you "or the EU wont like you any more and will drop kick you out of the Euro Zone!"
me "no please! anything but that...how will we cope without the EU telling us what we can and cannot do?"
you, "hey buddy, that's your problem capiche!?! now pay up, that means those people who can barely make ends meet, those that are behind on their mortgages, those who have lost their jobs, those who are about to loose their jobs, those whose businesses are crumbling already, those who have no food and shelter, the elderly and everyone in-between needs to have their taxes raised so you can pay us back this money we printed out of thin air and charged you for the privilege!"
me "ok, will do boss".
me on TV "my fellow Greeks, WE the politicians spent all this cash and now YOU the people have to pay it all back. that means YEARS and YEARS of debt servitude, the sell off of all our assets, islands and all our infrastructure."
the people of Greece "
WT F!?!"
me "hey! GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR ELSE!"
the people of Greece "or else what?!"
me "or else the EU says they will cry and wont be friends with us and wont let us play with their balls any more"
the people of Greece "F*** YOU, F*** THE BANKS AND F*** THE EU!"
That might be somewhat dramatic...but is true.