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Previously on "Greece onto the brink Vol. 1 billion"

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  • fullyautomatix
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I could solve the Greek problem overnight.

    "Start paying tax you greasy freeloading bastards!"

    There, next stop the Diplomatic Corps!

    Tax ??? Tax ?? What is that ? Oh you mean you want me to give up a percentage of my hard earned money, so that you can take that and piss it up the wall on schemes that is not in any way useful to me in my entire life ? No thanks !

    Regards
    Greek citizen

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  • BlasterBates
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    People ended last year thinking everything that could go wrong would go wrong, and it hasn’t,” said Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London. “There is still an inbuilt skepticism about the euro project, but there’s a shift away from the dire mood.

    Euro Markets Rebound on Draghi-Merkel Policies - Bloomberg

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    Stop trying and get marching?
    Well they can beat us at our national sport (football). But we can beat them at theirs.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    While the Germans are willing to pay then why should they? The Germans just need to stop trying to create the 4th Reich.
    Stop trying and get marching?

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I could solve the Greek problem overnight.

    "Start paying tax you greasy freeloading bastards!"

    There, next stop the Diplomatic Corps!
    While the Germans are willing to pay then why should they? The Germans just need to stop trying to create the 4th Reich.

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  • The Spartan
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    What would Zeus do?
    Use a lightning bolt and frag them all mwahahah!

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I could solve the Greek problem overnight.

    "Start paying tax you greasy freeloading bastards!"

    There, next stop the Diplomatic Corps!
    What would Zeus do?

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    So basically everyone is asking the Greeks to contract their economy even more in order to receive more money that they can't pay back because their economy is contracting?

    Genius!
    I could solve the Greek problem overnight.

    "Start paying tax you greasy freeloading bastards!"

    There, next stop the Diplomatic Corps!

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  • sasguru
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    So basically everyone is asking the Greeks to contract their economy even more in order to receive more money that they can't pay back because their economy is contracting?

    Genius!

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Don't worry, it will all blow over in a few weeks and we'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    They should just do an Iceland. Lets get the bad news out of the way and move on.

    No doubt there will be some sort of political fudge that will kick the can down the road though.
    Agreed and they should have done it years ago. At the moment they are in a death spiral. Cut this, cut that oops your tax revenue is now lower please repeat the cuts.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    They should just do an Iceland. Lets get the bad news out of the way and move on.

    No doubt there will be some sort of political fudge that will kick the can down the road though.
    It's already priced in. Just let em go FFS. Getting boring now.

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  • BrilloPad
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    They should just do an Iceland. Lets get the bad news out of the way and move on.

    No doubt there will be some sort of political fudge that will kick the can down the road though.

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  • Paddy
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  • Old Greg
    started a topic Greece onto the brink Vol. 1 billion

    Greece onto the brink Vol. 1 billion

    So, perhaps this really is it. I would go and withdraw some extra cash this morning in case of a systemic banking collapse, but I wouldn't want to be feeding a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Greece falters in debt talks with creditors - Telegraph

    Stupid linky thing won't work.
    Last edited by Old Greg; 6 February 2012, 08:15.

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