Greece's creditors demand casinos at archaeological sites, selloff of EUR50B of national assets

Basically the people are getting screwed and someone is making a fat profit off it.

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No. Corey misread the article.

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They won’t be able to get into this position again. Who lends money to someone without any collateral?

Holy mother of crap! Once this stuff is sold off, it’s gone for good (bad, actually). Personally, I think Greece would be better off without the Euro. Fuck them.

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As a sovereign nation, Greece’s answer to creditors who want a piece of it should be, “Start building tanks.”

No concessions, leave them absolutely high and dry. For all those who say they don’t want this to happen again, it’s not Greece that has to learn a lesson, it’s the creditors. Don’t lend money to people who aren’t going to pay you back, charge people enough interest on the money you lend to cover the people who don’t pay you back. Or go out of business because you are an idiot who doesn’t know how to run a bank. Yes, laws should protect legal agreements, but everyone should understand when they lend money to a nation that nations have the power to just say “fuck off” and there isn’t anything you can do about that without a war.

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The answer is always “more money to the banks”.

Just as America’s republicans never saw a problem that couldn’t be solved with tax cuts…

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