Gosh, these words could have been written by Michael Kitsch (Laconia Daily Sun reporter) - Granite Grok

Gosh, these words could have been written by Michael Kitsch (Laconia Daily Sun reporter)

DollarBucketWhen I read this post about the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (a socialist, btw) in his demands that Europe send even more money to Greece (because GREECE!), all I could think of was a screaming match I had one night with Michael Kitsch over the fact that Irefused, as a Budget Committee member, to tax my townfolk more than necessary so that the “excess” could be sent to other towns and cities that had spent themselves into bankruptcy.  When I pointed out that would be wasting money, as those towns and cities had been so mismanaged for years such that they were in deep debt, he blew up.  “PEOPLE ARE HURTING!” was his retort.  Right, so send money to those in charge that have already demonstrated incompetence is a good thing? Besides, bad decisions have bad consequences and those voters that kept voting in these fools were now suffering that deserved consequence. This set him off even more; a litany of adjectives flowed out of his mouth with the more polite ones being cold-hearted, flinty, selfish, uncaring (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A meeting last Wednesday failed to produce an agreement — so the Greeks, with only a few weeks worth of cash left, and their creditors are heading into new talks Monday morning.  As the Monday meeting in Brussels loomed, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis penned an op-ed in the New York Times.  His goal: “To fashion a fresh mind-set that transcends national divides, dissolves the creditor-debtor distinction in favor of a pan-European perspective, and places the common European good above petty politics.”  Varoufakis decried a “tyranny of consequences,” implying that the economic laws of scarcity need not apply to Greece because its thriftier northern neighbors have cash to spare and should willingly fork it over without any conditions.

Words right out of Kitsch’s mouth, I swear!  Translation: “It makes no difference how we blew our cash on paying out too much for too long on too many people and stupid stuff. You folks that haven’t done the same have the moral obligation to fork it over”.   Don’t ya just love the attempt, for the greed for other peoples’ money, in redefining the language so as to “doublethink” away any responsibility (“ dissolves the creditor-debtor distinction“), we’re all in this together (“a fresh mind-set that transcends national divides“) so there is no difference between us, and the silliest of all, a repudiation that consequences should apply to anyone, especially Greece (“a “tyranny of consequences”).

In other words, more of “something for nothing” to add to the whole lotta Euros that have already been wasted on them, all over a threat of leaving the Eurozone is Varoufakis’s big stick.  Problem is, all of the Euro-aristocracy is scared of just that.  If they had a single brain shared amongst them, they’d call his bluff and show him the door.

Problem is, more and more, that “Progressive” stupid mantra by both Kitsch and Varoufakis is typified by the even stupider phrase “Sharing is caring”; no, it isn’t when the sharee has no intention of confessing, manning up, and straightening themselves out and is only out to scam more out of the sharer.  Kitsch was quite clear that I was an evil person for my stance of not wanting to take from those that are not at fault to give to others with plenty of it and with little confidence it would actually make a difference.  At all.

Right, Kitsch?  It’s always about “intent” and using other peoples’ money so as to make yourself feel good about yourself; actual results are irrelevant.

 

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