Monday, February 13, 2012

Is the Euro Worth Saving

What is the Euro - that is, saving the Euro - worth ?

Is it worth riots that almost mount to insurrection in Greece?

Is it worth Greece becoming a country with +20% unemployment, where most people don’t have enough money to survive from month to month?

Is it worth some people in France who don’t have enough money to pay for the extra heating they sorely needed during this horribly cold February winter we are experiencing?

Is it worth unemployment rates well over 10% all over Europe?

Is it worth anger and a feeling of betrayal  in Spain and Portugal and Italy and Ireland because they feel sure they are being pushed out of the Eurozone they helped to create by being the “buyer” segment for Germany’s “seller” part of the arrangement?

Is it worth Germany becoming once again the most disliked country in the European Union and being referred to as the aggressor or the “boot” that is forcing poverty and recession and political collapse on Greece, with an eye to the others waiting in the wings expecting to be “aggressed?”
  
Somebody needs to ask these questions…urgently.  Because the EU and the Eurozone are close to collapse, not from fiscal policies gone awry, but from the collapse of the popular will to continue under a system that is destroying their countries, their ways of life and their children’s futures.


1 comment:

  1. Sounds to me like the ties should be cut to the Euro and say Adieu...

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