{"id":50913,"date":"2015-01-26T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50913"},"modified":"2015-01-26T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:58:37","slug":"europes-misbegotten-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50913","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s Misbegotten Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greece appears to be on the brink of electing a far-left government<\/a> which is promising its voters and end to the “austerity” that the incumbent center-right (by Greek standards; it’d still be to the left of the DFL) government imposed after the Greek economy, driven by decades of suffocating goverment spending that drove the government into crippling debt, crashed.<\/p>\n

Greece currently has nearly 30% unemployment; it’s nearly 50% among younger people. And it was rescued from “worse” only by a\u00a0massive\u00a0<\/em>bailout from the parts of Europe that work – mainly center-right Germany.<\/p>\n

And now, their response seems to be to tell the Germans “screw you, give us more money”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the piece from NPR’s “Marketplace”:<\/p>\n