They're blaming the wrong philosophy. Greece was so in debt that they didn’t qualify to join the EU. So Goldman Sachs took Greece’s debt off the books, and put it on their own books.
They charged Greece a huge fortune for it, leaving Greece more in debt and holding a bunch of junk stuff that had been issued by New York banks that blew up in the big bank blow up of 2007. Papandreou was their Prime Minister and he wanted to take a vote like they did in Iceland on whether or not to pay back the banksters. So they got rid of him and replaced him with Papademos, who used to be Vice President of the Central Bank (!).
Greece has some structural problems and the biggest is that the very rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. They hide their money offshore. Is the same thing happening in the United States?
Yes. According to the CBO, corporations are showing more profits than they have in 40-50 years, and are actually above their pre-bust levels. But corporate revenues coming into the treasury are at a 40 year low.
Why? Things like what Mitt Romney did, stashing their money in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to dodge paying taxes on it. The US loses more than $90Billion a year, according to the CBO, from rich folks and big corporations using tax loopholes.
The amount of money we lose from tax dodging is more than we spend educating our entire next generation. Our founding fathers tried to create a ‘we’ society, not a ‘me’ society. That is why our first President, George Washington signed a law to provide food, shelter, clothing and medical care for the poor.
The US loses more than $90Billion a year, according to the CBO, from rich folks and big corporations using tax loopholes. The amount of money we lose from tax dodging is more than we spend educating our entire next generation. According to Moody’s: $1 spent on food stamps generates $1.73 in economic activity.
$1 on unemployment insurance = $1.64 $1 on infrastructure = $1.59 $1 on capital gains tax cuts = $.37 $1 on corporate tax cuts = $.30 $1 on Bush tax cuts = $.29.
I don't see many inconsiderate comments about Greece-- at least not any more so than the average nation gets when it's being targeted as the cause or host of a problem. There are always multiple parties at fault. In the case of Greece, it was not the fault of many of their people to enjoy wealth they thought was real, but they will still have to recognize that clever financial tricks and deception were greatly responsible for the "growth" and sustaining of their false prosperity (credit Goldman Sachs) and now they will have to start producing more useful products if they want to raise their GDP and provide all of their services.
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