New Far-Left Government: Greece

[Dal Riata Don]

There has been a few column inches dedicated to the subject and I can't claim to be an expert on it, or economics for that matter but I did find this an interesting read:

 

http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece

 

It is certainly food for thought & it will be interesting to see how it all turns out.

[phoenix]

Yup!

 

I remember reading some economist who predicted that the 21st century would be awash with money , plenty for everybody.

 

But we can't gave that , can we?

 

How would the privileged feel privileged or the powerful powerful.

 

How on earth did we not manage to prevent so much of that money getting into the hands of so few?

 

Greece leading the way , Spain following , I wid !

[Ke1t]

Yup!

 

I remember reading some economist who predicted that the 21st century would be awash with money , plenty for everybody.

 

But we can't gave that , can we?

 

How would the privileged feel privileged or the powerful powerful.

 

How on earth did we not manage to prevent so much of that money getting into the hands of so few?

 

Greece leading the way , Spain following , I wid !

 

1% of the population now owns as much as the other 99%... when you consider that many of those 99% are living in poverty it becomes apparent that something needs to change. In the past this change has happened at the shooty end of a gun. Redistribution of wealth is often accompanied by lots of rich people losing more than their money.

 

Of the 99% it's a split between the left who blame the right for enabling the rich, and the right who blame the left, foreigners, jews, blacks, atheists, Muslims, etc. and the world gets ever more polarised.

 

It's getting near time there was another redistribution of wealth.

[The Boofon]

 

1% of the population now owns as much as the other 99%... when you consider that many of those 99% are living in poverty it becomes apparent that something needs to change. In the past this change has happened at the shooty end of a gun. Redistribution of wealth is often accompanied by lots of rich people losing more than their money.

 

Of the 99% it's a split between the left who blame the right for enabling the rich, and the right who blame the left, foreigners, jews, blacks, atheists, Muslims, etc. and the world gets ever more polarised.

 

It's getting near time there was another redistribution of wealth.

 

 

In theory that means the 1% don't really have much more than everyone else. Kind of.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

I am all for chaos in the Euro-zone, tends to mean a good exchange rate for the aul' holibobs.

[spamspamspam]

Uruguay has thrived under its far left government by all accounts.

 

Well by all accounts I mean those not paid for by global financial institutions out to try and pull them back into line.

 

 

Poverty at the lowest its been in decades, down from 40% to around 12%

Free education and affordable health care

Pooves given rights

Jobs being created both in public and private sectors

Big business made to pay its way

Foreign investment up

Weed legalised and taken under government control.

Annual growth of over 5% every year for the last 5 years.