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I am not responsible for the policy position of the german government.
But the Irish pensioners and unemployed that you're happily throwing under the bus are responsible for the actions of their government?
You can't have it both ways. Either the Irish people don't deserve to suffer for electing evil morons to high office, or the German people don't deserve to get bailed out, because they elected evil morons to high office.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Don't you think there is collective responsibility?
I do believe in defeating neoliberal policies whenever and wherever they sully humanity with their depravity. In this particular situation, defeating neoliberal policies means defeating Austerity. Defeating Austerity means threatening Mrs. Merkel and Messrs. Weber and Stark with a sufficiently big stick that they start printing money wholesale. And the only stick Ireland has that is big enough to make Messrs. Weber and Stark shit their pants and start printing money wholesale is the threat of making several major German financial institutions insolvent.
And if a German pension fund or two is collateral damage in that fight, well then there's nothing wrong with insolvent private pension funds that better public pensions won't solve.
If you have a better plan for how to fight back against "Hartz IV For Ireland," then I'm all ears.
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