13-07-2015, 10:45 PM
Screw the cradle of Western civilization. The banksters will plunder and loot it all.
http://time.com/3956017/greece-bailout-selloff/
Of all the aspects of Monday's bailout deal that Greeks found humiliating, nothing drilled into their sense of pride quite like their government's promise to sell off "valuable Greek assets" to the tune of 50 billion euros. The seven-page agreement, which European leaders thrashed out over the weekend, made no mention of where Greece is supposed to find that much property to sell. But as they scrambled for options, officials in Athens saw no way around the blood-curdling prospect of auctioning off Greek islands, nature preserves or even ancient ruins.
"It's an affront," says Georgios Daremas, a strategist and adviser to the Greek Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Social Solidarity. "It's basically saying sell the memory of your ancestors, sell your history just so we can get something commercial for it," he tells TIME on Monday. "This is an idea to humiliate Greeks."
The idea of selling the Acropolis came up early in Greece's debt crisis. In 2010, two conservative German lawmakers caused a furor in Greece by suggesting that ancient ruins should not be off limits to privatization. "Those in insolvency have to sell everything they have to pay their creditors," Josef Schlarmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's political party, said at the time. Since publishing those remarks, the Bild newspaper, Germany's most popular tabloid, has continued to irritate Greeks by asking why the Acropolis cannot be sold to repay debts to Germany.
http://time.com/3956017/greece-bailout-selloff/
Of all the aspects of Monday's bailout deal that Greeks found humiliating, nothing drilled into their sense of pride quite like their government's promise to sell off "valuable Greek assets" to the tune of 50 billion euros. The seven-page agreement, which European leaders thrashed out over the weekend, made no mention of where Greece is supposed to find that much property to sell. But as they scrambled for options, officials in Athens saw no way around the blood-curdling prospect of auctioning off Greek islands, nature preserves or even ancient ruins.
"It's an affront," says Georgios Daremas, a strategist and adviser to the Greek Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Social Solidarity. "It's basically saying sell the memory of your ancestors, sell your history just so we can get something commercial for it," he tells TIME on Monday. "This is an idea to humiliate Greeks."
The idea of selling the Acropolis came up early in Greece's debt crisis. In 2010, two conservative German lawmakers caused a furor in Greece by suggesting that ancient ruins should not be off limits to privatization. "Those in insolvency have to sell everything they have to pay their creditors," Josef Schlarmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's political party, said at the time. Since publishing those remarks, the Bild newspaper, Germany's most popular tabloid, has continued to irritate Greeks by asking why the Acropolis cannot be sold to repay debts to Germany.