“…is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results?”
Alexis Tsipras has hailed a “victory of the people” after his left-wing Syriza party won Greece’s fifth election in six years.
He said Greeks faced a difficult road and that recovery from financial crisis would only come through hard work.
Although at least they’re not trying to play anti-austerity again. Or trying to get the Germans to bail them out. I guess that this is turning out to be a bad time period for appealing to pan-European solidarity?
I’d think that right now, the economy is one of the least of their problems.
Being buried under a horde of Muslim invaders would seem likely to concentrate the mind.
Especially when some of the “humanitarian aid” arriving in Greece for the use of the refugees are small arms and ammunition for same.
So the socialists SYRIZA just teamed with nationalist IndyGreeks party for government. What could possibly go wrong?
Wait – hard work? Work?????
That was meant for the Germans.
Depends on the type of work. The Greeks have a long history of remaining unconquered, which took an awful lot of hard work.
A long history of playing Europe’s “Great Powers” against each other….
The current Greeks also spend an awful lot of hard work avoiding taxes. If only they put that energy to good use.
Megan McArdle actually went to Greece, and has written some good on-the-spot reporting — she posted http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-20/weary-greece-gives-syriza-another-chance and http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-18/greek-voters-have-a-choice-but-not-much-of-one, and continues to write on the situation. One point she brought up (that I think is a good one) is that some of the OMFG-crazy folks like Popular Unity have removed themselves from the picture, and the remaining Syriza officials are the ones who negotiated the ultimate bailout deal… which was worse than the one on the table when they came to office. Nobody seems eager to let them off the hook of dealing with the consequences, either.