PIGS was and remains an insulting way to refer to those party wreckers Portugal Ireland (and Italy) Greece and Spain. Who simply must be jackbooted into line in accordance with The Frau’s idea of a Final Solution. They must be ground underfoot. Their economies must be destroyed through austerity in order to save them. (Save what? You may ask. But that remains moot.)
Now Paul Krugman, the brilliant economist who understands the problems of the Eurozone far batter that The Frau and everyone else in her adoring coterie, has coined a different acronym. GIPSI, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. It’s less demeaning (pigs have been grossly, and unfairly maligned down the centuries, except in Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales.)
In fact, it may come as a surprise that if left to their natural state, pigs are in fact very clean animals. It is only when man ties them up to one place they cannot move away from that they can do nothing other than live in their own excrement. What would you do if you were tied to a pole in the yard by a big bad giant, or just The Frau’s shock troops?
But GIPSIs or Gypsies are a very different matter. Gypsies are a notoriously free and independent people, full of passion and pride, music, often violence (but that holds true for the whole of humankind) and an iron sense of solidarity, extended family allegiance and a value system giving precedence to the community.
That does sound much better.
Thank you Paul Krugman! If only The Frau would bother to read some of your articles!