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"We
Embittered the People to Protect the Future of the Nation"
If
you want to understand the reason PASOK went down in flames in a
crushing defeat in Greek elections, simply look at the arrogance and
gall of party leader Evangelos Venizelos in a statement following the
election.
“We
embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation",
said PASOK party leader and troika sponsored clown, Evangelos
Venizelos.
Ekathimerini
reports Election
swing leaves Greece teetering.
PASOK
leader Evangelos Venizelos and New Democracy chief Antonis Samaras
both declared themselves open to the idea of forming a pro-European
national unity administration that would include other parties and
would seek to renegotiate the terms of the EU-IMF loan agreement.
“All
Greeks have to get to know each other again,” said Venizelos, who
admitted that PASOK had paid the price for carrying the burden of the
crisis. “We embittered the people so we could protect the future of
the nation.”
He
said that the possibility of forming a national unity government with
a “European orientation” regardless of parties’ positions on
the bailout should be explored.
Samaras
said he would seek to form a “national salvation government” to
keep the country in the eurozone and pledged to “amend” Greece’s
debt deal with foreign creditors in a bid to boost growth. He
attributed the outcome of the elections, in which voters punished the
two main parties, to “the disappointment of the Greek people for
dead-end policies that have pushed them to the limits.”
However,
the possibility of a third group joining such a government looked
extremely slim last night. Perhaps the best hope for Greece’s two
main parties would have been Democratic Left, which maintained a
clear pro-European stance during the campaign.
However,
party leader Fotis Kouvelis repeated his position that cooperation
with New Democracy and PASOK was not in Democratic Left’s
intentions. “The results show people’s frustration and anger,”
he said.
A
failure by PASOK and ND to form a government would leave
second-placed SYRIZA, the night’s big winners, with the option of
trying to form a government. Greece’s electoral law means that in
case of a hung parliament, the first party has three days to form a
government, followed by the second party and then the group that
comes in third.
National
Salvation Party
The
idea that Troika sponsored clowns can form the basis of Greek
salvation is ridiculous. Furthermore, Venizelos' statement is right
up there with other top Orwellian idiocies.
Top
Orwellian Comments Of All Times
An
American major after the destruction of the Vietnamese Village Ben
Tre: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to
save it."
Vice
President Joe Biden: "We
Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt."
President
George W. Bush: "I've abandoned free-market principles to save
the free-market system."(For a discussion please see The
Most Redeeming Feature of Capitalism is Failure)
Nancy
Pelosi said "We have to pass the health care bill to see what's
in it." (YouTube
Video)
Larry
Summers says "The central irony of financial crisis is that
while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and
lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more
confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending."
(Reuters)
We
can safely add “We embittered the people so we could protect the
future of the nation" to that list. As I said, Best thing For
Greece is Tell
the Troika "Go to Hell", and the election proves most
Greek voters know it, even though they have been brainwashed into
wanting to stay in the euro.
