Chicago Tribune:

Most Greeks want their country to remain in the euro zone but without the crippling austerity measures demanded under a bailout from European partners and the International Monetary Fund, a poll showed on Friday.
Sixty-six percent of respondents said their country should keep the single currency but pursue an economic policy different from the one set out in the bailout deal, according to a survey by pollster MRB published in weekly newspaper Real News. With less than a month to go before an early May 6 general election, Greeks also show little sign of warming up to the two major parties backing the bailout, according to the poll.
Support for the conservative New Democracy party was at 25.4 percent, down 0.1 percent from a previous MRB poll last month. The Socialist PASOK party gained 0.6 points to 15.8 percent.
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You can't pick both black and red
April 13, 2012 by Irlandos (United Kingdom ), 1 year 6 weeks ago
Points: 0
The problem with Greece is lack of money and I only see two ways out of this economic mess:
1. Return to the drachma or a new Greek currency
2. Have the entire EU agree to print a double or treble supply of euros and distribute them amongst the member countries.
If Greeks expect the healthier northern economies to go for solution number 2, they will have a very long wait ahead of them.
In short: you can't have your euro outside the EU's terms which, unfortunately, includes an imposed austerity.
greece
April 13, 2012 by tieyetos (Canada ), 1 year 6 weeks ago
Points: -4
the broplem with greece is , to many greeks.
Re: greece
April 14, 2012 by Jim Adams (United States ), 1 year 5 weeks ago
Points: -2
@tieyetos:
They tried to address this problem by importing volunteers from Arab countries. It seems that it is starting to work, because from what I read Greeks are now leaving the country! So, there you go. There still is hope that one day you will see less Greeks in Greece and more ...Afghanis (???? )
election
April 13, 2012 by tieyetos (Canada ), 1 year 6 weeks ago
Points: 3
historicly speaking ,evry time greeks have elections on something important ,thay always make a bad situation worst,never fails..
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April 14, 2012 by Freethinker (United States ), 1 year 5 weeks ago
Points: -5
Sure the Greek people share some of the blame for their problems, though it'd one would be remiss not to point out the extraordinarily unfair circumstances each generation has been faced with since the country's independence(not to mention earlier generations too). I truly apologize if some of you may think this post lengthy, but its content is worth perusing, especially if the reader is unaware of any of its content.
Few nations have had to face the kind of continual hardships, or deal with such a profound amount of foreign interference in its internal and external affairs as Greece has and this continues more than ever presently and much of it occurs quietly. Few nations have had to deal with such perpetually unpropitious times as Greece due to factors most dont have a clue about. Many countries owe far more money than Greece to the bankers. Many countries have defaulted on loans in their histories, Turkey has defaulted many times, Greece has a few times as well. Yet why is Greece being targeted and having such a harsh program imposed upon the nation which seems purposely designed to choke the life out of her?
How many people are aware that it's been proven Greece holds potentially huge oil, gold and uranium resources/reserves. Dont believe it? This info is verifiable and can even be found on YAHOO Answers for cryin out loud...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111229203629AAgyskA
What isnt as easy to find is the reason as to why Greece hasnt been allowed to develop her own resources, and please do feel free to google the following names and info. Ask yourselves why it hasnt exploited these resources which have been known about for years and instead kept largely secret? The answer is simple, the Rothschilds and the various orgs they control under them consider it a priority to never allow the Greek nation to ever become prosperous, self reliant, vigorous or truly independent.
This is the main reason they used and quietly funded Emmanuel Carasso and others to find leadership (Mustafa Kemal, young turks, etc) to bring down the sultanate and defeat the Greeks in the Balkan Wars and ultimately set up a Turkish "republic" based on Ataturk's cult of personality and backed by its armed forces which to this day are strong and in charge of a very strong and dynamic Turkey. Simultaneously a very weak Greek state was ensured(treaty of Lausanne rather than Savres which wouldve been quite better for Greece) in which the fallacy of "democracy" was encouraged and which in time the country's armed forces would be kept weak and in time come to be severely stigmatized especially after the last junta. True leadership in the modern Greek state has been rare and when found eventually rooted out, since before her independence, at least to the best of Greece's enemy's abilities. Greece has purposely been kept on a very "short leash", so to speak. If you wish to fault Greece's people for something, the main thing would be not being able to rise above this constant foreign meddling...
While Turkey developed a Latinized alphabet, Greece was essentially forced to forsake its purist form of language(katharevousa) and instead use the highly diluted and damaging "demotic" form. Thus the Greek nation was deprived of rediscovering her true language and today there are likely more foreign "experts" who have a better grasp of the true Greek language than Greeks themselves.
Speaking of elections, not long ago in the US it was revealed in congressional committee hearings by representatives of a major electronic voting machine manufacturer, no less, that electoral fraud is easily possible by use of electronic voting. Heres an interesting link on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc
One of the main issues is non-disclosure by electronic voting machine software manufacturers of source codes, though that isnt the only issue. Ironically, when many peopl along with the mainstream media in the US were focusing on inconsistencies in FLA during the 2000 presidential election in which G W Bush won, very few questioned what percentage of pro Bush numbers couldve been fraudulent altogether due to use of electronic voting in the US and the issue was given no media coverage.
Of course there are other ways to fix or skew elections. But what better way could there be to ensure puppet candidates are elected than by changing conditions on the ground beforehand to make it all but guaranteed that the puppet candidate will win? Politics have been made into something of a sickening circus like spectacle in which there are 2 main parties who will pretty much do the same thing regardless of which of them ends up in power, thats how it is in the US and how it has become in Greece as well for a long time now. Its just a show, an illusion designed and maintained for the benefit of the majority of people to provide them with a false sense of political fairness and legitimacy.
Anyhow, the main point I wish to make is please dont be too quick to rush to judgement when it comes to the Greek people. If they'd been given a fair chance to begin with things would be far different...
Re: :-0
April 14, 2012 by Jim Adams (United States ), 1 year 5 weeks ago
Points: 2
@Freethinker:
(Finally! A conclusion in the last paragraph.)
Once again. It's somebody else's fault. Things will never change under that mentality!
Re: :-0
April 15, 2012 by Freethinker (United States ), 1 year 5 weeks ago
Points: 5
@Jim Adams:
I never said it was all someone else's fault. Infact i said the people are at fault as well but I wished to point out some factors that need to be taken into consideration, which will need to be likely addressed by people not only in Greece but hopefully the world over before anything can truly change in Greece or elsewhere.
In Iceland. there was a referendum taken on the same kind of issue that the Greek people never got a chance to have a say in. Matter of fact, just recently the people were again given a say in the handling of debt yet again and yet again smacked the bankers down and forgave much of the mortgage debt for its population. Heres a couple links.. http://www.dailypaul.com/226520/brilliant-iceland-forgives-mortgage-debt...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyxzg58JkYI
How is it possible that the Irish didnt get to have a say when their turn came? How is it that the Greek people werent allowed to have a say in their own affairs either, in the "cradle of democracy" at that? To get to what you said, the part about change, I cant imagine that the Greek people will be given the chance to make the necessary changes to prevent what has already started to happen. I guess I just disdain seeing Greeks get bashed and seeing it said that its all their own fault, especially when its not entirely true.
Once again...
April 15, 2012 by Irlandos (United Kingdom ), 1 year 5 weeks ago
Points: -1
@Freethinker:
Fine, in that case the only solution is: OUT OF THE EURO!
No more foreign dependency, foreign laws, foreign austerity AND foreign currency that deprives Greece of an independent, Greek-centred fiscal policy.
By the way, I agree.
Unfortunately, our fellow Greeks don't see it that way. They want to keep the euro and, my point is, they cannot do so unless they dance to the tunes of these foreign ultra-laissez faire politicians WHICH MEANS A DEADLY AUSTERITY!
In short: you CAN'T have it both ways!