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Some big lies-cliché used by
various centers in Greece
and abroad, are aiming to serve specific interests and disorientate public
opinion. Among the most frequently used big lies are:
Big
Lie No1: Exit from the euro currency. It is perhaps the most
widely used lie from the bank-controlled centers in Greece and abroad since the
beginning of the crisis. It is used extensively up to this moment as the top
“argument” of intimidation. It is accompanied by highly catastrophic scenarios
and seems that it had limited success in the recent Greek elections. It is
directly connected to the threat of bankruptcy of the country and the threat of
the domino-case across the eurozone. It is used professionally from the fully
controlled media, with successive assurances from journalists, technocrats and
government officials, that there is no matter of Greek exit from euro, among
which are inserted every so often supposed “leaks” about potential exit, in
order to keep the public opinion under a bullying uncertainty hostage, and
also, to encourage speculative games, in which, many of these systemic parrots
participate.
However, it seems that this so
frequently used lie, is loosing power, as many – exhausted from the cruel
austerity measures – individuals, are viewing the return to the domestic
currency, and the benefits that this will possibly bring, as an opportunity and
not as a disaster, as long as this return may come through a well organized
plan.
Big
Lie No2: The rich must pay. Numerous factors, from
journalists to government officials in Greece and abroad, have used this
lie, through various, similar phraseology, to calm the public anger, giving the
impression that they have no intention to defend the interests of the big
capital. As an example, we can recall the recent statements of Juncker and
Merkel, which now sound clearly hypocritical, and they are essentially a
definite deceit, since so far, only the small and middle incomes are paying the
crisis, through repeated cuts in pensions and wages. It is essentially, an
old-fashioned “publicrelationing” tactic for the appeasement of the masses.
At the same time, governments
are supposedly looking for the big tax-fraudsters in Swiss banks, despite any
evidence they may have in their hands (Falsiani case), but in the end, they are
making simple calls to the tax-fraudsters, to return the money in each country enjoying
favorable treatment as reward, while the banks continue to be fueled with liquidity
at the expense of taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the government
repeatedly announces new austerity measures with further cuts in pensions and
wages, with gradual disappearance of the welfare state, and when these measures
will be formally passed, the servants of the neoliberalism, will come out to
state once again, that they realize that the majority is paying the price, and
that is time for the rich to pay too. The same deceit again and again.
Big
Lie No3: Recapitalization of the banks. It is promoted extensively
by the media and the economists of the “new economy” – under any capacity
(specialists or non specialists - analysts on TV to finance ministers) – almost
as a matter of life and death for the survival of economy. Although banks have
received billions of bailout packages – even before the arrival of the global
economic crisis in Greece, considering that the government under Karamanlis
administration has given 28 billion euros to the banks for a start – the
recapitalization of banks is always a major issue, preparing the public for a
new round of bailout packages at the expense of taxpayers.
Of course, according to the
rules of the free market, no one dares to ask or to check where all these
billions go to, how they are managed by the banks. The state only intervenes to
save banks and not checking even the slightest term of their financing. Any
government officials and systemic journalists, are playing very well their
roles, by pointing the finger at bankers who do not care to provide loans from
all this liquidity they receive to stimulate the real economy. Besides, Barack
Obama did the same, when in the peak of the crisis, higher bank executives and
golden boys, defiantly shared nearly 20 billions in bonuses from the bailout
packages. Therefore, the freeze of loaning, is perhaps the only charge of the bank-occupied
media to the banks, hiding their enormous responsibilities and their key role
on the crisis.
While under the rules of
classical capitalism, only the healthy and the properly functioning businesses
survive, banks are excluded from these rules. Those who survive, are the ones that have
access to government funding, while also eliminate their competitors, become
“Too Big to Fail”, keeping the entire national economy under hostage. The
recent scandalous “sell” of the healthy part of the public Agrotiki bank to the
private Piraeus bank is only an example.
In fact, bank recapitalization
means only one thing: higher government debt and deficit which the future generations
will be called to pay.
Lie
No4: Securing the deposits. It is directly connected to Lie No3 and used
as the basic argument for the continuous feeding of banks with liquidity and
guarantees. As the majority of people keep deposits in Greek banks, they accept
the necessity of the bank recapitalization, in order to keep their deposits
safe. However, this is a highly misleading argument that the media serve on
permanent basis, since the key shareholders and golden boys of the banks who
are managing freely the billions of the bailout packages, they only care to
secure their personal excessive earnings and reserves of their banks in any
case.
In reality, no one can
guarantee deposits, since in the case of a general panic and possible bank run,
the bank declares bankruptcy while key shareholders have already secured their
capitals at the European Central Bank or other Swiss banks. Deposits disappear
and junior staff employees lose their jobs. Which means that, the “securing of jobs”
as the basic argument provided by the governor of the Bank of Greece George
Provopoulos, and the Minister of Finance Yannis Stournaras, in the case of “selling”
Agrotiki to Piraeus bank, is another big lie.
But it seems that, the big
lies that the various centers provide daily to control public opinion, begin to
loose their power, as the reality experienced by the citizens under the
unbearable austerity measures, is more powerful and painful.
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