Greek Comedy

Greek Finance Minister: "Referendum? Dude, do you know how f**king broke we are?!"

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos called on the Greek government to categorically rule out a referendum on a crucial bailout plan and do everything to implement the deal.

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In a speech to fellow Socialist lawmakers on Thursday, Venizelos said the bailout ought to be approved by an increased majority of 180 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament. He said the debt-choked country needed its sixth tranche of aid from foreign lenders before Dec. 15.

While I sympathize with Daniel Hannan's view that Europe suffers from a lack of democracy and its elites like it that way, we are well past fretting over that now. The time for these deadbeat Greeks to stop dicking around is now and waving the banner of democracy doesn't change the situation. Greece is small potatoes; they can't contribute anything positive, all they can do is burn the house down. Time to shut their antics down, even if it does reinforce the elitism of Eurocrats.