Is Greece insanely bluffing?

[The Great Aztec Joe]

Prime Minister Papandreou is using the referendum as a way to push the EU into a better deal for the Greeks who can not support their liberal social welfare programs.

The PM seems to playing an extremely high-stakes game of chicken with the European Union in his call for a national referendum on the euro zone's latest "Foolish Fix-it Plan."

That call grates on my nerves and has destabilized a situation that was already on thin ice. Obviously, this tin hat political leader of Greece thinks European leaders may have to sweeten the pot for Greece to make this vote go away.

It is clear to me why this dipsheet Papandreou decided to step up now and call for a referendum. Unlike in places like our state of California and in Switzerland (where things frequently go to a vote of the public), referendums are extremely rare in Greece. In other words he is going against public convention in an effort to finagle more money out of the one country that is keeping the rest of Europe solvent, GERMANY.

It is time for Germany to say "Enough is enough! Let them go to hell!"

[aztecwin]

What was Germany thinking when they went into this EU?

[The Great Aztec Joe]

Nov 5, 2011 9:12:11 GMT -8 aztecwin said:

What was Germany thinking when they went into this EU?

I really do not know.

That would be like all of the successful Republicans in the United States allowing all the states to increase taxes on the rich to fund liberal social programs for all the lazy Democrats to retire on the Gulf Coast.

That is basically what the Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese are doing to the Germans.

France has so many freeloaders in the south of that country that they neutralize the hard working French in the north of the country. Essentially, France is a wash, but since the lazy Mediterranean French have an astronomical birth rate they will be sucking at the German Teat soon.