Furious Greeks lampoon German 'overlords' as Nazis with picture of Merkel dressed as an SS guard

[kpete]

Furious Greeks lampoon German 'overlords' as Nazis with picture of Merkel dressed as an SS guard
Street poster depicts German Chancellor wearing a swastika armband bearing the EU stars logo on the outside


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054406/Furious-Greeks-lampoon-German-overlords-Nazis-picture-Merkel-dressed-SS-guard.html#ixzz1yRKf7phs

[lame54]

1. If they really want to piss her off...

they should make a poster of Bush giving her a full body massage

[JustAnotherGen]

3. My first thought

Too.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Hey Greeks, try paying your taxes.

Then you won't need to go cap-in-hand to the Germans begging for a bailout.

[Fawke Em]

6. Hey Nye, try reading a newspaper.

Then you'd know that it was the big banks who overvalued Greece so they could shoe-horn that country into the EuroZone and steal all their money!

http://www.economywatch.com/economy-business-and-finance-news/goldman-derivatives-ugly-double-role-in-greek-tragedy-27-2.html

But the situation in Greece begins to outline, in all too painful detail, how the use of derivatives can, in this case, exacerbate an already screwed-up situation, and, in the case of the US housing market, create a problem when none previously existed – which is why Americans, Asians and others, and not only the directly affected Europeans, should pay careful attention to the unfolding Greek tragedy.

[Nye Bevan]

8. Greece was desperate to join the Euro.

Fiscally, they didn't really qualify, so they hired the banksters to come up with a crooked scheme to cook the books so that they could join up anyway.

[Zalatix]

18. The Greeks who are calling Merkel a Nazi don't want Germany's money. FYI.

[hobbit709]

7. The Greeks not paying their taxes are same 1% that aren't paying here.

Then they want the working class to pay through austerity measures so that the rich can once again pay nothing.

[Nye Bevan]

9. It's a lot more pervasive than that.

Some of the most aggressive tax evaders, experts say, are the self-employed, a huge pool of people in this country of small businesses. It includes not just taxi drivers, restaurant owners and electricians, but engineers, architects, lawyers and doctors.

The cheating is often quite bold. When tax authorities recently surveyed the returns of 150 doctors with offices in the trendy Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki, where Prada and Chanel stores can be found, more than half had claimed an income of less than $40,000. Thirty-four of them claimed less than $13,300, a figure that exempted them from paying any taxes at all.

Such incomes defy belief, said Ilias Plaskovitis, the general secretary of the Finance Ministry, who has been in charge of revamping the country’s tax laws. “You need more than that to pay your rent in that neighborhood,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.html?_r=1

[Fawke Em]

15. Ahhh... American newspapers.

I buy American when I can, but I find the news is better reported outside. It's not that our reporters are dumb, it's that their bosses are.

[Zalatix]

17. Wow, you really don't get what's happening in Greece, do you?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Unlike WW2 the Greeks are free to decline German intervention.

[apocalypsehow]

5. "Loan me billions of dollars or you're a Nazi!" <----The poster in a nutshell. n/t.

[Odin2005]

10. They are right. Who died and made Merkel Kaiser of the EU?

[badtoworse]

11. I think it has something to do with the Germans having money

[4th law of robotics]

14. If you want money from someone you kinda have to expect to lose some sovereignty

there's a reason we're so keen to look at funding sources for news agencies, reporters, etc.

Simply put: once someone else is paying your bills they have some control over you.

Don't like it? Don't take the check.

[dkf]

12. This is old...from October.

[4th law of robotics]

13. The Nazis being known for oppressing all of europe

by giving out massive, but conditional loans.

Greece: STOP BOSSING US AROUND!
Germany: ok, stop asking for money.
Greece: NO!

[Eksess]

16. idiocy alert

Until Merkel is tossing people into ovens, crap like this really needs to stop. You slap the swatstika on someone, or label them a Nazi, without horrifying atrocities to go along with it, and you instantly lose every last shred of credibility you could have possibly have had.


In other words, you become a total idiot in my eyes. Some one whose opinion means less than the effort it took to read/observe it. So yeah, postermaker needs to STFU, and stop acting like a moron.