Well, as can be expected this secret Brussels-Berlin axis speech writer lacks imagination just about as badly as the Brussels – Berlin axis policy makers.
Here in Greece we are becoming rather weary of the same old lame deceitful cant being repeated again and again. Now we can’t help emitting a dry little laugh when we hear exactly the same lines from other puppet governments of the Eurozone states under assault from the Brussels-Berlin axis.
The first of the puppets was George Papandreou, who, being the first tended, in the beginning to get the benefit of the doubt. So when he first triumphantly boasted that he had “saved” Greece, some actually believed him, others just shrugged a suspicious “we shall see.”
However this “saviour” cant is the first of the Brussels -Berlin axis cants. Exactly when some puppet Quisling has agreed to outrageous terms that incur recession at best, rampant unemployment and a total collapse of the economy, then he addresses his people (like a Roman Emperor) in triumph, proclaiming he has “saved” the country.
Now, in Greece, these disgraceful technocrat politicians, from Papandreou, through Papademos to Venizelos and now the notorious for his dishonesty Samaras, have all proclaimed in arrogant boastfulness that they have “saved” the country. This has happened so many times now, and each time the accompanying terms have incurred such destruction and wretchedness that we would somehow prefer never to have been saved at all in the first place. After all, what would not having been saved entail then?
And precisely when the country gets to that line of opinion, of “just how worse could it have been if no one had ‘saved’ us?” The unimaginative Brussels-Berlin axis speech writers realise they must churn out a back up motive. This one is a variation of “So you think it is bad now? You just don’t know how much worse it would have been without this kind of saving.”
Again the first (and perhaps worst) offender was to be found, where else? In Greece. In the form of the super duper technocrat Papademos who had come in to save us (yes) and vote in the disastrous PSI and further shrinking of the economy and explosion of unemployment.
Now this gentleman lost every claim to any kind of decency from human, to political, even to technocratic decency, when he sternly and in a threatening manner pronounced over the TV and airwaves that: You will go hungry! You will have no fuel! There will be no milk on the shelves in the super market! If we do not vote in these catastrophic measures.
And then, after this disreputable little agreement had gone through and had indeed only managed to make things much worse than before, (as all sane minded people knew it would) the new technocrat wonder boy Yannis Stournaras, again declared several months later, exactly the same thing. Using exactly the same words. “There will be no milk on the shelves in the super markets!” if we don’t shrink the economy by a further 18 billion Euro or so.
But before you sigh and say, what do you expect from all these inept Greeks, take a look at the statements going round now. Mario Monti, the darling of the troika (as it were) has just pronounced that he has been the “saviour” of Italy and that, oh yes, I forgot that one. The sacrifices of the Italian people must not be allowed to go to waste!
That little line hacked in Berlin was originally used by Samaras. We will not let the sacrifices of the Greek people go to waste! They forget to add. Instead we shall lay the Greek (Italian, Spanish, Irish etc) people to waste! And be very proud of that too!
And guess who has trotted up onto the stage to repeat the same cliched line coined by this horribly unimaginative Brussels-Berlin speech writer? Mariano Rajoy! The Spanish economy is in a complete shambles, high sky unemployment and growing recession even though Spain’s fiscal conditions and state finances were in a much better state than those of Germany.
Nevertheless he too jumped on the Brussels-Berlin axis band wagon to ruin his country’s economy and now he tells the Spanish people a sort of “you don’t know how lucky you are we have done this to you.” because “things would have been far worse had we not plunged you into recession and unemployment!”
All the Brussels-Berlin axis speech writers have achieved by this unimaginative and lazy exhibition is the following: There is one center and one center only deciding not only on the infliction of pain and ruin on the Eurozone states, but also on who is to do it and what they are to say in justification. And woe betide him who refuses to do as he or she is told.
And through all this brilliant politicking and diplomacy it has made a vast majority of victims in the worse hit states scream:
We don’t want to be saved! We don’t want to be saved any more by anyone else ever again, and certainly not by the likes of you Berlin groveling little lot! We don’t want you to make sure our sacrifices are not going to waste! Not the way you mean it!
Just leave us alone! Stop saving us and let us all go to hell! And then we shall see how much worse what you are doing to us really is. Worse even than hell. Because the hell you have inflicted on us derives from your extreme neo liberal dogma where all you want to achieve is the crushing of people, the abolition of society and to turn human beings into frightened, hungry and hence compliant vassals.
And actually, the same lines repeated by every Quisling PM from Samaras to Mario Monti, under the same circumstances each time, followed by the same appalling consequences, have helped more and more people see through your deceptive lies. But that’s just it. One of the things The Frau and her coterie are greatly lacking in is imagination, both in economic policy and propaganda.