Greece, What Happens Next?

Greece over the last 50 years has implemented a retirement and government bureaucracy that has become a very large portion of their tax expenditures. Notice one thing, retirement and government expenses contribute nothing to the economy. They are like leaches that live on a host. Like most governments, the bills got bigger and bigger and the bureaucrats figured out a way to pass the financing of these contracts of debt into the future. Why does that mythical country, Obamaland come to mind, for some reason?

Greece is about to have a referendum on whether to accept the terms of the EU or to refuse them. It doesn’t really matter. All transfer payments that deal with support for non-working citizens will be eliminated or reduced by about 70 percent. The Army will get paid either way. If the vote is yes, I expect a rebellion with the military taking control. If the vote is no, expect everyone on a pension or government subsidy to be out of luck, no more funds. Savings in the banks will go poof.

So next Sunday with Greece, it really doesn’t matter how the vote goes. If you are retired, you will pay for passing this mess onto the youth of your country. Their banking system is in ruins. Their educated youth has fled to other countries.

The preservation of the Euro is a Non-Sequitur for Greece. The old “farts” need to realize that they can’t tax the youth of their country for their future retirement. They can try, but I think it will fail this time. Let’s not single them out as the only guilty country; it was the world bankers that “Cleaned their plow.” The PIIGS as a group will fall together, one at a time.

The vote on Sunday, “Do you want to keep your government pension” or “Do you want to default on the EU loans?” Greece is in a depression. Chancellor Merkel of Germany is demanding repayment from Greece — funny, how in 1933, “someone” in Germany repudiated the war reparations that had impoverished their country. To say that solution worked OK for them is a gross understatement of fact; it eventually led to a world war.

Moral: Don’t expect a politician to get you out of a problem he helped you get into.