{"id":183351,"date":"2014-12-18T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/dumb-ass-3\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:55:00","slug":"dumb-ass-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/dumb-ass-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb-Ass\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page from the Barack Obama book of pre-capitulation as a negotiating tactic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/sections\/euro-finance\/syriza-reiterates-its-commitment-eurozone-310906\">the Syriza party has ruled out any possibility of Greece exiting the Euro<\/a>:<br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last week, the stock market in Athens suffered its worst day in decades, and Greek politicians bickered over the political uncertainty provoked by the presidential vote. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Greece&#8217;s largest opposition party, Syriza is currently ahead in the polls. A snap election could find the party into power. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.gr\/apopseis\/synenteyksi-d-papadimoyli-stin-euractiv-kanena-grexit-den-yparxei\">interview with EurActiv Greece<\/a>, Papadimoulis, an influential figure in Syriza, attempted to dash these fears, saying that a Syriza government is committed to keeping the country in the eurozone. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere is absolutely no case for a Grexit. Those who invoke such a possibility play a propaganda game against the Greek and European economy,\u201d Papadimoulis said. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">He added that the actual danger for Greece is its social disintegration and its transformation intoto a \u201cdebt colony\u201d and for Europe, a new phase of recession, higher unemployment and poverty. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an attempt to appease international lenders and possible investors\u2019 fears, Papadimoulis made it clear that there is no Syriza party member who speaks in favour of returning to the drachma.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to avoid Greece becoming a debt colony of Frau Merkel,<sup>*<\/sup> you<b> cannot<\/b> unilaterally disarm.<\/p>\n<p>To the degree that you take a Greek exit from the Euro Zone, or possibly an exit from the EU off of the table, you are weakening your bargaining position.<\/p>\n<p>Look at what Iceland did, and take f%$#ing notes.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Horses whinnying.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page from the Barack Obama book of pre-capitulation as a negotiating tactic, the Syriza party has ruled out any possibility of Greece exiting the Euro: Last week, the stock market in Athens suffered its worst day in decades, and Greek politicians bickered over the political uncertainty provoked by the presidential vote. Greece&#8217;s largest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984,964,1017,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-international-finance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}