Euro zone orders Cyprus to sieze 10%
 

of peoples bank accounts, in order to secure a bailout, gee Wally I wonder when that, will start over here ??? Probably after they disarm us.. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...92G03I20130317

Curious to see who is in favour of this, and who is against:

According to Wikipedia, Cyprus has the 6th-highest per-capita gun ownership in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_ownership

If my goobermint wants to take 9.9 or even 6.7% of my money they would go farther in the hole than they are now.:haha:

That is not going to set well with a lot of people.

I think you can go for conspiracy as well. I did. :yep:

You've not ticked off 'socialism' and 'communism', Hottentot. Then again, it must be confusing for murricans when the "right-wing Democratic Rally party" is trying to take peoples' money away, and the socialists and communists oppose it...

It probably helps if you don't try to understand world politics solely in terms of what goes on in the US.

its things like this that makes me happy that I keep my money under my bed

It would also probably help if you looked at someone's profile locale before you made sweeping statements intended to belittle them. Consider it a free tip.

Strange. People accept it when they get expropriated by low interests, flooding the market with cheap money, and high taxes, as long as it does not get called expropriation, but "interest" and "taxes". But when you cut the show short and instead just take their property directly and rob some of it, they yell the sky down.

On the other hand, what did the people in cyprus expect? That the workers in Finland, Austria and Germany would just sit and enjoy to work more so that they can pay for the inabilities and deficits of the people in Cyprus and the failures of their Cyprus that the people on that island have to accept responsibility for? I assume they expected miracle money just growing on trees and the wind blowing the notes to Cyprus all for free, eh? Compared to what other people who have nothing to do with Cyprus at all need to fund in payments to Cyprus via the ECB, people in Cyprus still pay the smaller part of the bill. Why Fins and Germans and Austrians need to work and make new debts of their own to pay for Cyprus, escapes me, as if it would not cost us anything. And regarding the Russian mafia and money launders in Cyprus - maybe the people there would be well-advised if they start to go after their corrupt government and start throwing its leaders off rooftops for having brought in financial crime in the first.

Ah. the whole drama, and the failings preceding it, all are in conformity with what I said about the model by Hoppe. But I just got called nuts over it. Denial of reality, I call that.

Note to myself: it's the Eurozone, stupid. Why am I even lamenting about lunacy when it is a mental asylum I am talking about. Madness and derealization are part of the environment here.

Thanks, Takeda, but I didn't get the impression that it was aimed at me despite of the quote. And if it was...well, frankly it was then so silly that I'd have hard time taking it seriously (it's not like I'm very good at that in any case.)

Well Hott, if it wasn't aimed at you then I owe Andy an apology.

Not aimed at Hottentot. Apologies if anyone saw it that way. Aimed at the OP, who seems to have taken advantage of the Cyprus situation to take a cheap shot at his favourite target without even bothering to look at who was proposing what, and why.

Nope, it's me that owes you an apology. Sorry Andy, I should read more carefully.

Yeah, like this won't start a bank run like crazy.

Stupid.