–Greece: The kid who owns the ball, should take it and go home

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●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes. .
●Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap.
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We just read this article:

European Ministers Go to the Brink to Avoid Greek Bankruptcy and Euro Exit
Geoffrey Smith/Fortune Feb. 16, 2015

Finance ministers from around the Eurozone are meeting in Brussels Monday for what will be the third session of fraught talks in less than a week on how to talk Greece’s new government off the window ledge and persuade it to carry on servicing its crushing debt burden with a deal that would keep it from defaulting and leaving the currency union.

Let’s parse this overly long sentence:

” . . . talk Greece’s new government off the window ledge . . . “

That sounds like Greece is about to commit suicide. But is it?

The so-called window ledge is: Leave the euro and re-adopt your own sovereign currency, the drachma. That would make Greece Monetarily Sovereign — able to pay any debt denominated in drachmas.

No more would Greece need to impose destructive austerity on its helpless citizens. Greece would have the unlimited power to control its money supply, and spend to grow its economy.

Does that sound like Greece is standing on a “window ledge”?

” . . . carry on servicing its crushing debt burden . . . “

Yes, Greece, they want you to carry on servicing the debt that is crushing your citizens, so you can preserve the euro. Why? Because the German bankers don’t want to lose money. To hell with Greece’s citizens.

” . . . keep it from defaulting and leaving the currency union.”

Keep Greece from defaulting, because if a sovereign nation defaults and re-adopts its own currency, no one will sell them goods and services. NOT!

The exact opposite is true. Once Greece defaults, and begins to use its own sovereign currency, suppliers will flock to it. Why? Because they know Greece will have no problem paying its bills in the future.

The article continues:

Negotiators have been at work over the weekend trying to find some kind of face-saving formula that will allow all sides to claim a victory.

That’s what’s important? A face saving formula? Does that exceed in importance the lives of the Greek citizens? To the EU, apparently so.

Greece’s bailout program is due to expire at the end of the month. From that moment, it will lose access to the final €7.2 billion earmarked for it that haven’t been paid out yet because the previous government failed to meet all of the conditions for disbursement.

It goes like this: “We will lend you the final €7.2 billion so long as you use all of it to repay us what you already owe us. Don’t you dare give any money to the Greek people. In fact, you’ll have to take more from them.

“And after all is said and done, you still will owe us big money. See it never will end. It never is supposed to end. That’s how we keep you on a permanent leash.“

Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis repeated Monday, that Greece is essentially bankrupt and that there is no point in asking for more loans to cover that up.

“The ‘extend and pretend’ game . . . will end,” he wrote. “No more loans — not until we have a credible plan for growing the economy in order to repay those loans, help the middle class get back on its feet and address the hideous humanitarian crisis.”

Varoufakis uses the sole voice of common sense in the entire EU, with one exception: When he says, ” . . . in order to repay those loans . . . “ he still assumes Greece needs the euro.

But, Greece does not need the euro. Never did.

If anything, the euro needs Greece, because once other euro nations see how well Greece does when it is freed from the heavy yoke of the Troika, there will be a mad dash for the door.

And that is what frightens the EU.

The weakness of Greece’s negotiating position is becoming increasingly clear.

That is what the EU wants Greece to think. A number of articles have run with this headline:

The ball is in Greece’s court
GREG MCKENNA

That is the clear message after talks broke up overnight earlier than expected and with no agreement.

Jereon Dijsselboem, chair of the Eurozone Finance Ministers Committee, told a news conference after the meeting: “There was a very strong opinion across the eurogroup that the next step has to come from the Greek authorities.”

That is true. The ball is in Greece’s court. In fact, Greece owns the ball, and if Greece is smart, it will take its ball and go home.

GAME OVER!

And that is what scares the hell out of the useless European bankers, who have been living on the backs of the impoverished populace.

Go Greece. Take your ball and go home to the drachma. And Godspeed.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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