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Greeks Vote No on Additional Austerity Measures – Banks Stay Shuttered

<p>As Greece enters a second week of severe financial restrictions&period; &nbsp&semi;Banks are shuttered this morning and in danger of collapse within days&comma; ATMs only allow small withdrawals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Greek citizens voted this weekend against additional austerity measures that would have enabled additional support from the European Union to assist this bankrupt nation in getting back on its feet&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The margin of defeat for the austerity measures was wider than expected 61&percnt; against vs 39&percnt; for them&period; &nbsp&semi;Greece now faces uncertainty as to its membership in the EU and the joint currency it uses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Greece vowed to quickly restart negotiations with the EU&comma;&nbsp&semi;Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis&comma; who had clashed with European officials in the bailout talks&comma; announced his resignation today&period; Representatives from the EU have commented with the vote against additional austerity measures there really is not much basis for continued negotiations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Experiencing a long recession and high unemployment rates&comma; and with Banks dangerously low on capital&comma; Greece defaulted on its IMF loan repayment&comma; becoming the first delveloped nation to do so&period; Greece may be forced to start issuing its own currency and would be the first to leave the 19 member euozone&comma; established in 1999&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Author&&num;8217&semi;s comment &&num;8211&semi; We <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;european-banks-drop-&dollar;56-billion-socialist-greece-poised-to-exit-eu&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">mentioned before<&sol;a> Greece&&num;8217&semi;s socialist problem with citizens dependent on programs the government has to pay for&period; &nbsp&semi;This is an addiction as strong as any opiate and it is no surprise the citizens rejected the austerity measures&period; &nbsp&semi;Withdrawal symptoms will be severe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is clear to us Greece will now experience a further economic collapse&comma; any currency they issue will suffer from extremely degraded exchange rates&period; &nbsp&semi;Indeed private companies are already <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;telegraph&period;co&period;uk&sol;finance&sol;economics&sol;11716318&sol;Greeces-Yanis-Varoufakis-prepares-for-economic-siege-as-companies-issue-private-currencies&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">preparing their own private currencies&period;<&sol;a> &nbsp&semi; This will begin an economic free for all&period; &nbsp&semi;Greece has a four month supply of oil and pharmaceuticals&comma; look for either a severe meltdown or monumental concessions within that period of time&period; &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We predict unless someone steps up to bail them out&comma; Greece will drop to third world status&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is the nature of socialism&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a negative feedback system always requiring injections&nbsp&semi;of capital to sustain itself and never becoming productive&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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