Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took a victory lap this morning, immediately after his Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis formally announced the country was leaving the Eurozone and the European Union, and also defaulting on all its obligations to the IMF, the ECB, the World Bank and the press conference's caterers.

“The proud hard-working men and women of our noble land,” he proudly proclaimed, “which invented democracy and yoghurt, will not surrender to the capitalist merchants of poverty and creditworthiness. We have triumphed over the Teutonic Brünhildas who tried to humiliate us, to crush our spirit and reduce us to slavery, just as we triumphed at the battle of Thermopylae. Greece will survive forever!”

Prime Minister Tsipras noted that the massive exodus of third-world migrants from Greek cities to the countries left behind in the EU has accelerated.

“Every single day, thousands of barbarians are packing up their fake Luis Vuitton handbags and heading north to try to sell them in the lands of cold winters and cold people," he said. "Our welfare budget has been reduced by 90% and we have made thousands of park benches available so that our own Greek youth can move out of their parents' homes and start their productive lives as dedicated civil servants before they retire on fat pensions next year. Greece has triumphed again!”

Tsipras denied rumors that everyone under the age of sixty is leaving Greece as well. “Turkish propaganda,” he said, shutting his suitcase. “Arrivederci,” he added as he walked out the door.

Say what you want, Greece has been chosen as an example for everybody to see. To whom do we own all that wealth that was never created and all those exorbitant interest rates? Just because these guys know math formulas doesn't mean that we must humbly accept what these guys have decided for us.

The bottom line is "see what we will do to Greece, and then decide for yourself."

Greece is so close... they've reached the Glorious World of Next Monday. I'm jealous.

The Comrade that had 29 June 2015 as the default date in the Kollective betting pool wins an extra ration of beet vodka!

Ahem... I'd like a table for 300...

Is that Taco Hell?

But...but..they threw all that money at Greece and they still defaulted again! It's almost like socialism doesn't work or something. Do we get to keep the yogurt?

"...if you like your yogurt, you can keep your yogurt..."

Greece is broke - up in smoke. What's the big deal????

DhimmiNoMore wrote:“We have triumphed over the Teutonic Brünhildas who tried to humiliate us ...”

== "We took 61 billion bucks off those those Kraut suckers alone, just the Krauts mind you, and none of those rotten Shylocks are getting any of it back."

It is all greek to me.

Cutbacks? Seriously?

“We are watching the end of the political career of Alexis Tsipras,” Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at Peterson Institute in Washington, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. “Mr. Tsipras can continue his career on T-shirts for students, replacing Che Guevara.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ith-merkel