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Old 07-05-15, 04:30 PM   #1
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Perhaps we should have an economic reset day, midnight 1st Jan 2016, all debts get written off and everyone starts again from scratch.
So have you guys finally paid off your debts from 1720?
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Old 07-05-15, 04:36 PM   #2
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So have you guys finally paid off your debts from 1720?


How much do you want to bet that Italy is going to find some loans given to Britannia during the Roman occupation?
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Old 07-05-15, 04:49 PM   #3
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How much do you want to bet that Italy is going to find some loans given to Britannia during the Roman occupation?
Here we still have to pay a hefty fine for the Roman occupation - we call it Köln.
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Old 07-05-15, 04:55 PM   #4
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Another thought

Could it be so, the Greece voted no, with the mind set on living as they always have, with the same benefit. Meaning.

"I vote no, so I can keep on living good as I always have. I don't want to see my benefits go away."

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Old 07-05-15, 05:24 PM   #5
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Another thought

Could it be so, the Greece voted no, with the mind set on living as they always have, with the same benefit. Meaning.

"I vote no, so I can keep on living good as I always have. I don't want to see my benefits go away."

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Honestly, I don't think so, because the average Greek doesn't really have much in the way of benefits to go away. As many have pointed out, no matter what way Greece went with the referendum today, it was still going to be majorly screwed over in the immediate future. I think that this vote, if anything, is partially national pride, a determination to stick two fingers up at what has been portrayed as an overbearing European presence in Greek internal affairs. In a way, it's not that much different to all the other anti-EU movements which have been spreading throughout Europe over the past decade.
The Greeks know that hard times are coming, but it will be on their terms rather than on Berlins. In theory at least.

To quote the film 'Gandhi': "Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power."
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Argentina is often cited as a precedent for successfully defaulting when it abandoned the policy of pegging it's peso to the dollar. However, Greece faces a number of unique challenges. Unlike Argentina, Greece's economy and foreign policy are deeply intertwined with those of its European partners. Partners whom the Greeks have just greatly annoyed and who have strong incentives to ensure that Greece gets the raw end of the stick for the next few years. Greece also doesn't have a vast quantity of raw materials or finished goods it can export.

And while things went well for Argentina in the short term, they've gone sour with inflation in the long term.
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Honestly, I don't think so, because the average Greek doesn't really have much in the way of benefits to go away. As many have pointed out, no matter what way Greece went with the referendum today, it was still going to be majorly screwed over in the immediate future. I think that this vote, if anything, is partially national pride, a determination to stick two fingers up at what has been portrayed as an overbearing European presence in Greek internal affairs. In a way, it's not that much different to all the other anti-EU movements which have been spreading throughout Europe over the past decade.
The Greeks know that hard times are coming, but it will be on their terms rather than on Berlins. In theory at least.

To quote the film 'Gandhi': "Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power."
Thank you for your answer.

I had two things on my mind when writing. Their retirement age is about 53 years. And the EU want Greece to raise it to 67. and their vacation pay, who should be something out of the ordinary was also forced to be changed(have heard it in a news program)

But I'm not an expert on Greece or state economics I can only reply what I read/see and hear on the news and Internet.

And even that is difficult-´cause I seem to get different information depending on which channel I watch or which Internet page I read

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we call it Köln.
Which is Cologne in English for all those not familiar with how German cities are really spelled.
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Which is Cologne in English for all those not familiar with how German cities are really spelled.
Ha! Next you'll be telling us that Munich is really München.

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Which is Cologne in English for all those not familiar with how German cities are really spelled.
Explain Bielefeld then.
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One of these days it will be us

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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One of these days it will be us

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Nah, Obamas Communist-fascist FEMA deathcamp dentist Muslims will have enslaved the US and money will be outlawed by then.
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One of these days it will be us

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
I'm not too well up on America but from the news I see America keeps raising the debt ceiling by another trillion every year if you keep doing that wouldn't that mean a bigger fall? Seems America has no answer to the debt problem. Of course here in the UK they are so focus on trying to get the government deficit down the last government added to the national debt!

As for Greece their no vote shows they will not be dictated too for how long only time will show us that. The EU will probably not allow them to leave with out a fight because that would show weakness and could open the door for Spain Italy Portugal and Ireland and maybe even the UK.
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Explain Bielefeld then.
There is no need to spell Bielefeld, it does not exist. Just a cold war ruse.

http://bv.bytos.de/
http://www.stupidedia.org/stupi/Bielefeld
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