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Eurozone issues Greece an ultimatum

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"Eurozone issues Greece an ultimatum"

That is true, but in the European papers you can already read that Greeks told them to shove it...

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Only the lefty ones. Those blaming anyone and everyone but the Greeks for creating their debt through chronic corruption and ineptitude.

The radical left now running Greece promised unicorns. It isn't going to be pretty when they fail to fly in from Narnia.

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The system wielding the big stick, threatening Greece, the system doesn't like to be challenged, plus the system will never be beaten, but , the system can be used,now the Greeks have just to find a way. Reading all the negative comments from financiers, present and former world finance ministers, politicians all decrying Greece and saying that they must pay, or leave the European union, this is just rhetoric to protect their club and its system. I personally believe the Greeks are right to challenge those financial burdens imposed on it,and its people, and i also believe that those Greek industrialists who never paid any taxes and those corrupt politicians who lead to this situation being inflicted on the Greek people, should now be named and shamed. This situation is not just happening in Greece but in countries all around the world, the imbalance between the rich and poor is growing. Equality, its just a word a dream, will never happen.

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It was a crime against humanity to lend that much money to a small country knowing that it can't possibly pay back without putting its population on to dry guillotine. IMF, World Bank and all big lenders are doing this all over the world. They want to have ordinary people bleed to miserable ends just to make money and control the New World Order "Ordure" fits better here. Any country that does not have a referendum requirements for that kind of loan request or acceptance should not be legally liable to repay it. If the majority of the people didn't have a direct say than it is not democratic and not legal.

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Very easy to blame IMF & Co., while forgetting to mention that countries like Greece have continuosly getting in financial troubles on their own. And then, when they finally see no light at the end of their debt tunnel, then they cry for help. Just look at what's going to happen: Greeks decided to elect this rabic ultra-leftist populist administration, only to make things worse. How can someone expect to get credit for a living without paying the old bills?

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Eurozone issues Greece an ultimatum

Wear a tie, or else!

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Monday Eurogroup finance ministers took to flipping the financial hourglass measuring the passage of time heralding the largest default in global economic history.

True to form like a deviant delinquent shameless sneak thief, the European commission attempted to blag the hard working tax payers of Europe concocting a risible fudge in the guise of a four-month delay entitled a 'new contract for growth'. This memorandum devised in secret, a manipulative legerdemain, an incongruous financially contemptible work of deception that conceals the fleckless financial folly in the corrupt structural architecture of EMU in the Euro zone. The incumbent Greek Government only has Greece's corrupt Europhile elite that through fraud and accounting deception callously made Greek debt disappear before it joined the euro to hold responsible.

Using Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, own descriptive wording for the draft text being 'absurd and unacceptable', and 'The only way to solve Greece is to treat us like equals; not a debt colony', are weasel words from a scallywag. To invoke the betrayal of Greek democracy as a means to circumvent responsibility for the self generated major humanitarian crisis, mass youth unemployment that fueled a debt deflationary spiral has to be vigorously challenged.

The EU must take an equal proportion of the blame, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Euro group demands that Greece 'honour its obligations' belies the inevitability that EU tax payer will have to collectively absorb a total debt of close to €340bn. The political fallout from a acrimonious exit would trigger a eurozone collapse that would be nigh on impossible to reverse

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"Never commit the top part of Banana tree just because there's blossom on it,cut it, and plant it in your backyard to allure people in your side that there's a future on it..."021715jimmy, it's about time we look eye to eye to Meduza.

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Austerity is a huge failure in Europe and elsewhere. The US is booming because the Fed and Obama had the guts to try to bail out the economy after the total financial collapse in 2008, brought on by greedy big banks and corrupt compliant governments. That is why the USA is booming now and Europe is in the toilet. Greece is a symptom of a deluded economic policy of squeezing out blood from a stone. In truth it seems the Eurozone is more interested in protecting the greedy banks than protecting Europe. This is their Lehman moment. Lets see if they are on the right side of the wrong side of history. If Greece is forced to fail the repercussions in Europe will be devastating both economically and politically. These exact types of financial policies created Nazi Germany after WW1 and we know how that turned out.

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Let Germany pay their long-overdue war reparations. Then talk.

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It is precisely opined that time is running out both for Greece and EU to avoid catastrophe. Astrologically speaking, the planetary influences representing through material entities against the compromise are growing stronger by the day. Those planetary influences through material entities for compromise are growing weaker. Conclusion is obvious and not far.

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