THE NEW GREEK BUDGET

I would say that a large majority of the Greek public were relieved if not actually pleased by the appointment of an intelligent technocrat as Prime Minister of our country.

However, the publication of the proposed Greek budget for 2012, approved if not compiled by our new Prime Minister, is evidence that our hopes were very short lived.

This is a ludicrous, impossible document. Surely, rather than all the convoluted details, it would be better to state simply and honestly, that look here, since we can?t do anything else, we hereby decree that Greece shall be under a Pinochet style dictatorship with a pinch of communism added. All property is to be confiscated (which is what the multiple property taxes shall achieve). All labour will be nationalized and people will be expected to work on below subsistence wages henceforth (for the lucky minority that may have some kind of work). Although unemployment will rise dramatically and public health deteriorate enormously because of all these measures, there will be no social security for anyone, either in the way of health care nor, of course any unemployment relief.

And at the end of all this, what? Oh! We will no longer have a budget deficit! Well, yes, maybe, but only because we will no longer have a budget at all, still less an economy, nor even a country. Will this repay our enormous debt? No. But then since we will all have died, or, the lucky ones, emigrated in the process, it won?t matter. Hordes of northern tribes will just swoop down into the waste land that used to be Greece and just pick and chose what they want to appropriate with no resistance from a dead population.

This new budget is nothing more than a death sentence. And not even by being put to death through a merciful injection. No, this is death by slow, painful excruciating torture. If that is the best our savior technocrats and politicians can come up with, then they must not be surprised when a bloody revolution erupts in all its anarchy, possibly stringing up some of them from trees and rubbing salt in their wounds, as happened with the black marketers during the German occupation of Greece.