The reason we're talking about telling foreign creditors to fuck off and die is that domestic Irish creditors are a domestic Irish distributional problem. Foreign creditors are the ones with the motive, means and opportunity to use the European institutions as leverage to get the Irish public to pay for their poor judgement.

Yes, domestic Irish holders of sovereign bonds should also be told to fuck off and die, unless they are important to the Irish economy. But that's an internal Irish question of whether the Irish government wants to impose Austerity^TM on the Irish people in order to pay off Irish oligarchs.

I'm not sure if you're trying to argue that the bulk of the Irish sovereign debt is held by ordinary non-oligarchic Irish citizens and businesses (which is almost certainly false) or you simply have been labouring under the impression that I am not in favour of telling Irish oligarchs to fuck off and die (I am very much in favour of that, but that doesn't have anything to do with the European Union or the ECB).

- Jake

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