Peter's Viewpoint

The financial crisis is an awakening that reveals not only the absence of intelligence among those who we supposedly follow but the failure of governments to foresee the changes needed in a highly technological time to correctly promote education and public well-being.

Greece - The day after

The lack of leadership exposes:

• The childish nature of the EU via Brussels declaring that they may revoke their offer
• The failure of Troika by involving itself in the politics of a country that they apparently know nothing about instead of keeping to their audit objective
• The Greek politicians, with the exception of Mr. Papademos, that signed the agreement to justify their start of the Greek Election Games
• The Greek news media taunts local people and foreigners as to the hunger, homeless, and unemployment statistics
• The Greek Orthodox Church that voices its opinion of the failure of the Greek politicians while hording the money that is has been given by the people of Greece and foreigners and concerning itself with the best ways to invest it for itself
• The Greek politicians that continue to protect their voting interests rather than
• The Greek judicial system that fail to protect the people of Greece by not incarcerating the politicians and other individuals who have broken the law
• The latest public address by Mr. Papandreou declaring his success at all that he has accomplished while informing the Greek people of the doom and gloom for years to come
• The latest speech by Mr. Samaras asserting himself as ready for elections verifies his infantile attitude to become the next prime minister of Greece while he has already branded himself in the EU as being politically unstable
• Foreign news media illegitimately classify the Greek people as being tax thieves when the foreign media do not realize that the Greek government has psychologically trained the people to survive in this manner for the purposes of corruption

Meanwhile:

• Cost of living remains high even though the wages have been reduced three times
• Unemployment continues to escalate
• Families are consolidating into single domiciles to save money
• Taxation of goods and services are constricting market growth
• Small and medium businesses are vanishing
• Confiscation of the assets of “grand theft” tax evaders remains a mystery
• Politicians continue to have bank accounts outside the country
• The IMF, IIF, and the EU are disparate and discordant

If the Greek people did not believe in a democratic system, Greece would have already been in the same state of affairs as Syria.

A larger population of educated individuals today claim the achievement being enlightened through educational factories but are receiving diluted degrees of recognition giving them illusions of being intelligent, the truth unfolds by the lack of respect toward our leaders is the product of enlightenment that they simply are our equals.

The people of Greece once again assume the role of saviors of their country because they know, like anyone who lives in Greece knows, that to survive here means having to be completely independent, otherwise it means suffering due to the complete failure of the existence of a government.

For anyone interested in reading the IMF report on the Greek financial crisis.