Bigger conmen than the Greeks are the
large banks, governments and international organizations in the Eurozone. The
banks wanted Greece to join them in 2001 in order to sell them more and more
loans and the governments collaborated.
They all knew that full repayment was
unlikely but they also knew that the governments would not let them collapse
and that taxpayers would pay the price of the dubious investments.
Courtesy: Wolter Buikema
Members of the Troika, consisting of European
Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
Set a country up to fail and then blame the country when failure occurs. Lovely strategy.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe IMF has this policy with Third World countries for a long time already. When these countries fail to repay, the IMF imposes measures that benefit western business companies.
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