Topic: Why is Yanis Varoufakis so praised? he is just a socialist puppet (Read 1536 times)

"oυκ αν λάβoις παρά τoυ μη έχoντoς"

Sorry for my bluntness, but i just dont have any other means of responding to irrational people. Everyone with a little honesty and observation power should realize that a nice packaging doesnt mean that what is inside the package is worth 2 dimes.

Greece can’t make June IMF payment without creditor deal, minister says


Greece cannot make debt repayments to the International Monetary Fund next month unless it achieves a deal with creditors, its interior minister said on Sunday, the most explicit remarks yet from Athens about the likelihood of default if talks fail.

Shut out of bond markets and with bailout aid locked, cash-strapped Athens has been scraping state coffers to meet debt obligations and to pay wages and pensions. With its future as a member of the 19-nation euro zone potentially at stake, a second government minister accused its international lenders of subjecting it to slow and calculated torture.

After four months of talks with its euro zone partners and the IMF, the leftist-led government is still scrambling for a deal that could release up to €7.2-billion ($9.7-billion) in remaining aid to avert bankruptcy.

“The four instalments for the IMF in June are €1.6-billion. This money will not be given and is not there to be given,” Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis told Greek Mega TV’s weekend show.

Mr. Voutsis was asked about his concern over a “credit event,” a term covering scenarios like bankruptcy or default, if Athens misses a payment.

“We are not seeking this, we don’t want it, it is not our strategy,” he said.

“We are discussing, based on our contained optimism, that there will be a strong agreement [with lenders] so that the country will be able to breathe. This is the bet,” Mr. Voutsis said.

Previously, the Athens government has said it is in danger of running out of money soon without a deal, but has insisted it still plans to make all upcoming payments.

The government is under pressure to agree to more cuts and reforms to secure the funding, but opposes measures which it says make the situation worse by preventing recovery from one of the deepest recessions in modern times.

Mr. Voutsis said the government was determined to fight against the lenders’ strategy of “asphyxiation.”

“This policy of extreme austerity and unemployment in Greece must be hit,” he said. “We will not escape from this fight.”

In an effort to placate the hard left faction of his Syriza party, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday the government was on a final stretch towards a deal but would not accept “humiliating terms.”

Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who sides with the party’s hard-left faction, told its central committee on Sunday the government must prepare the Greek people in case there is no deal in the coming days that is compatible with its promises.

“The so-called institutions in the last four months have applied a drip-feed torture on the Greek people, one of the most horrible blackmail practices in world history, at the expense of the country,” he said.

He told party cadres the government must be ready for any possible alternative solution to avoid new measures and privatizations.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Greece had made “enormous strides” at reaching a deal with its lenders to avert bankruptcy but it was now up to the institutions to do their bit.

“We have met them three-quarters of the way, they need to meet us one-quarter of the way,” he told Britain’s BBC on Sunday.

Mr. Varoufakis also said it would be “catastrophic” if Greece left the euro, predicting it would be “the beginning of the end of the common currency project.”

He said in the last four months, Athens had managed to pay public sector salaries, pensions and dues to the IMF by extracting 14 per cent of national output, doing “remarkably well” for an economy that doesn’t have access to money markets.

“At some point we will not be able to do it, and at some point we are going obviously to have to make this choice that no minister of finance should ever have to make,” Mr. Varoufakis said.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11626969/Greece-to-miss-IMF-payments-amid-fears-of-catastrophic-eurozone-rupture.html

He's just a loser from a country with a majority of losers so he got elected and now he's famous. In ancient times, the rich countries who've lent so much to Greece would just go there, and rightly seize everything they see as valuable, because they've paid for it. I don't thing he will stay famous long, when the people will discover that his policies aren't making the country any better.

GreenStox,

he is in position of rebel, an underdog. So what, if one socialist is fighting another 27 (EU)? Your empathy needs a boost, man. I am also quite appaled by your rather immature way of responding to other people notes. If you arent interested in discussion, you shouldnt start it in the first place.

Ok you are either a paid troll or you learned economy in a vodoo school.

Since when is excess money, a sum robbed from fertile 20 year old working people (who need that money to create a family) ?

Besides, the method of extracting it is violent, cruel and unnecessary. You advocate global violence and enslavement, i`m not talking with you anymore, you are an immoral person. 

A tax is the refund of excess money in circulation. I can't talk to you because you don't know macroeconomics. Go to school and come back later.

A tax is an extortion, and if you dont pay it they will send armed thugs to your house demanding it, if you resist arrest, they will use lethal force against you.

It's a system based on violence and theft. You have to be their obedient slave in order to get along, otherwise only trouble will happen.

 


Wow! 

You have no idea what is a tax. You know only microeconomics. You have no idea about macroeconomics.  Go to school.

No because a job contract is voluntary, YOU CAN LEAVE WHENEVER YOU WANT. You can also make your own business if you want, nobody would stop you (except the state). Taxes are fucking not voluntary, it's basically an armed robbery!

Your system is based on violence and theft. Mine is based on freedom and voluntary, mutual association, and cooperation.

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Sorry but life isnt a pink paradise with ponies, you have to be able to make inteligent decisions for youself. And why should i pay for idiot's who made the wrong decision...  

Why do you need any property after you die?  

He lived off his whole life from other people's hard work, he was a parasite. And on top of that he mass murdered many innocent people...

No, capitalists, like you, are thieves because they steal the profit of the productivity of the employees.

Maybe. But unlike many others, Stalin has left nothing after death. Basically there were only his jacket, uniform and the shoes, all remaining property was state owned. What is the number of people like him?

Oh really, i think you are just a thief, because whatever private property we might own, you will always support thiefs who would rob that from us.

See if i own a farmland, you will eventually want to steal that from me, because you are just a thief who supports a biggest thief called the state.

He is using hegelian dialectic, born liar, and that smile is so fake on his face.

Stalin also lived in a castle ....

I`m an anarcho-capitalist and those guys are really scumbags.

I would never harm any private property or other people, unless of course for self defence.


Those red idiots who protest there are just a bunch of idiot brainwashed, thugs, or communists. They are heavy authoritarianists.


Ok Mr. math genius. So you say you know math, ok then explain to me the pension system.

So you pay your entire life's earnings, a % of it, in a pension fund, just so that you can get pension for 5-7 years before you die after you retire.
So as healthcare advances and people live longer, you will have to increase the retirement age for it to work out.

Now since the entire pension system & healcare system , both, are ponzi schemes, unless you get more loans from banksters, it will collapse, and the poor old woman will be left without pension.

So your stupid marxism, is what feeds the banksters. Every single penny that the government borrows, because it spends more than it gets, will attract all sorts of thieves and thugs to steal that money.

And as with any good marx lover, his life does not fit what he preaches for others...

The state is not the people, the state is a wholly seperate entity, shame, thought you sounded like a syndicalist at first, but you're definitely a Communist.

I respect the private property, i don't respect the private production.

Ofcourse i deserve a nobel prize, because i know better mathematics than the IMF/EU idiots. Even a simple housewife knows better mathematics.