Nigel Farage: 'For Greece It's Diplomacy At Gunpoint, And Portugal Is Next'
Video - Nigel Farage - Feb. 1, 2012
Transcript
"Well, Congratulations everybody.
Davud Cameron had you worried for a bit. You thought he was even a eurosceptic. But it's okay, you had a quiet word with him and the real David Cameron was back.
Whatever happened to the veto?
No more vetos anymore!
Indeed Mr Cameron is now actively supporting this quite despicable pact, this plan to destroy and humiliate nation states that do not live up to a Germanic view of how economies ought to be run.
Now, I must say I thought the weekend's proposals from the German Finance Ministry that came out, suggesting that a European Commissioner and his staff occupy a big building in Athens and take over the running of the country.
- A gauleiter some may say, - I thought it must be a joke.
Possibly even this EU could sink to those depths. But of course, it was just a negotiating position and what we've now got for Greece is diplomacy at gunpoint. It's the kind of strategy that Palmerston used against Athens back in the 19th century.
Nobody can deny today that Greece is any more than a colony. And this is all a terrible, huge mistake.
Greece is not a failing subsidiary company where head office needs to come in and take control. Greece is a nation with a soul, a nation with pride, with history. Goodness me, they invented democracy in the first place.
They are suffering, they have youth unemployment of 50% caused Mr Van Rompuy because they are in the Euro.
You are causing the misery in these countries and you blather on about creating jobs and growth. None of this is actually going to happen.
And remember, these people are being driven into humiliation and desperation, and desperate people do desperate things. And I am deeply fearful for what will happen in Greece if we continue with this mad course. And of course - as Mr Barroso knows - it's going to be Portugal next."
Feb 4, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Reader Comments (8)
"Save a nation, burn a bank today!"
What a scam.... the Germans know it was the JEWS of Germany then and NOW who are the banksters - the same Jewish thieves and thugs - then and now.
But the grousing in Athens blames the German people.... not German Jews..... this is going to be fun.
Both my parents grew up from coal mining families in coal mining communities, and they used their deliberate self-education to provide them with the means of moving out, and their willingness to live in self-imposed poverty to save enough money to enable them to raise three children with good diets, good school, and sufficient time to become truly educated, by learning to read before entering school, and knowing full well, school can only provide the very slightest view of the world, a real education can only come from a person's self interest in self improvement.
Because my parents were willing to live within their very meager means and very carefully make the most of what they had, they incurred no debt in our youth, and by the time I was a man and entered the Marines, at 18, my older sister was about to graduate from college, entered without graduating from high school, having found a college which considered her 31 credits of serious high level classes sufficient to allow her entry into college on a provisional basis, and by her own efforts, she had almost completed her four year degree before her third year was done.
My younger sister completed a four year degree at University of Chicago in three years, and then paid her own way out to California, got entrance to Berkely, and paid her way through a Master's and an Engineering degree, first, practicing her cello in the public park, and using the money thrown in her case, to pay her tuition and bills, and only later getting a regular job with her degrees, and finished out her engineering degree.
Our parents live well today, and have established almost a dozen charity trusts with the substantial fortune my parents earned during their life's work, and with their three children well established, and needing little help, have, with our full blessing, chosen to divest themselves of millions, to charity, and we three children have no qualms, no hard feelings, and are completely in support of their decision to establish these charitable trusts which will help the community they live in, long after they have passed on.
Nothing my parents did to go from abject poverty to multi-millionaires was luck, none of it was gifted to them, every bit of their success, and that of each of we children, is a direct result of hard work, the willingness to live on beans and rice, with occasional change of "rice and beans", and our willingness to pay cash for what we need, and not need anything we can't pay cash for.
Success for a person is a direct corelation with their willingness to scrimp while working extremely hard. Success is seldom had by those who would borrow, because the cost of interest consumes any extra ever gotten by work. the lack of extra, when one has worked extra hard breaks the will to work, and those who waste their hard work paying interest on things they can't afford to buy, soon cease to work "extra hard" because it doesn't help at all except when it is paired with the will to scrimp and make do with the least possible.
Those who start life with debt, never learn how to capitalize, because they have wasted all there is to use for capital, spending it on interest. This is true about every worker of any quality and place, it is true about every community, every culture, and every Nation, my own as well.
I am no less disgusted with the flamboyant waste of America than I am with the flamboyant profligate waste of Greece, and the utter unwillingness to scrimp and save, by the People of Greece, and help themselves, having the good reason to look back over the past four decades, and see they did not do the least thing my father did, they did not do the least thing their own fathers did, and they, all those who are in the fifties, as I am, and their sixties and seventies, should be looking in the mirror and demanding to know why they were not willing to excel, why they would not set aside a dime a day, why they would not bypass many good meals, and eat beans and rice when they were working, with wages arriving, and with the capability of working harder, and taking in more, yet also capable of saving the extra and investing it in themselves and their work, and making capital improvements of their lives from the very beginning.
I look at Greece and I see a Nation I once admired as I wandered through it as a child, exploring all its antiquities, and learning first hand, of the history of our world, and I see it having lost all the virtues which made it once great enough to be "Empire". I see exactly what I expect to see of my own nation after the worst, most scrurilous criminal communist ineligable president deliberately destroys to equal what mere poor judgement brought on the Nation of Greece.
When America falls the same way, there will be a large splash, mark my words.
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC, USA
Excellent comment Gunny. I love the looking in the mirror part.
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S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
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"S.E.C." Criminals provide all weapons and protection to scam/loot/Bang American working middle class
Makes perfect sense. They were then first to figure out they could vote themselves largess from the public trough, and the first to run out of other people's money.
Let Greece serve as an example to the world: Socialism is a path to ruin.
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Some analysis...
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-10/greece-trying-convince-portugal-make-fire-hot
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/eight-hundred-pound-greek-gorilla-enters-room