Greeks pride themselves on essentially inventing democracy back in…however long ago it was. Too bad the man who is now being touted as “the Man with the Plan” is an economist, who was appointed to rule the Greek people – no word on elections here.
“The Greek prime minister was the Greek finance minister at the time Greece joined the euro. So he was responsible for cooking the books to get Greece in for this ever-expanding empire,” Nigel Farage, a member of the European Parliament, explains. “He was rewarded by going to work at the European Central Bank. And as soon as Papandreou had mentioned the word “referendum”, he was their man.”
And even if we skirt the whole issue of current governments being appointed by someone else from another country, another question pops up: will they be capable of doing anything different than before?
“The irony is, of course, that many of these technocrats were the architects of this disastrous Europe projects in the first place. And, really, it’s pretty annoying that that they’re in charge of all these European countries,” says Dr. Richard Wellings of the Institute of Economic Affairs
