Is the EU actively trying to install a government formed of the corrupt entities that stripped Greece like locusts?
Alex Andreou confirms what a young Greek resident said yesterday, in Kings Heath. Both
informants stress that if family and neighbourhood bonds had not been
so strong, there would have been three times as many victims of
austerity. As it is, family members working abroad are doing what they
can to help relatives who cannot pay their rent in full because of
restrictions on cash withdrawals and people are leaving the cities for
rural areas where food is grown; the only changes noticed there are in
the falling pensions.
Andreou’s Friday Byline article described the political corruption and corporate tax evasion rife in Greece for decades:
“Accounts were falsified in order to facilitate entry into the Euro.
Unforgivable economic crimes were committed. These weren’t committed by
most ordinary people of course – the very people now asked to take on
the burden of the follies of our rich oligarchs. Corrupt politicians who
passed the country back and forth like a joint were quick to secure
their money in Swiss bank accounts. But we must share in a collective
responsibility for them. We all knew what was going on and we either
became part of it or didn’t rebel soon enough or loudly enough . . .” He
countered the idea that Greece has not paid a heavy price for those
sins:
“In the last five years, we have made adjustments which reduced a 15%
deficit to zero, while the economy contracted by a quarter. Incomes
fell by over a third. Pensions were slashed by 40%. 18,000 people are
sleeping rough in Athens alone today. 11,000 are estimated to have
committed suicide explicitly because of financial worries. The Church is
raising thousands of children in orphanages. Almost a third of the
population are living below the poverty line”.
