Go Papa!

Go Greece! Papandreou wants a referendum and is currently being tortured in Strasburg or somewhere by the Forces of Euro. I don’t know but I get the impression the Forces of Euro want Greece to play ball, i.e. remain in hock to the Empire, while Luke Skywalker Papandreou is heading a plucky effort to save planet Tantuine just south of Thessalonica. Greeks by culture and geography are individuals as with the aforementioned island dwelling bazuki playing gyros seller, their concept of central government could be summed up on a postage stamp. Basically if the gov has got into debt let ‘them’ pay it off, a view secretly shared by the rest of us. So should Greece borrow money so generously offered like a bank’s offer of a mortgage you could never pay back or cut and accept insolvency? I’d imagine with their own devalued currency their tourist industry would flourish as it once did. And maybe the rest of us would be left muttering, “if only we’d had the balls to do that.” Bring back the days when banks refused to offer a lone because “it wouldn’t be in YOUR best interests.”