*Exactly correct, Marv, and I would have been voting with you. **
****
**We could also add Costas Lapavitsas's explanation provided here:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14278
**
****
**and include the entire Die Linke bloc in the German parliament.
*Paul Zarembka
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:41:08 -0400
From: Marv Gandall<[email protected]>
On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Louis Proyect<[email protected]> wrote:
>On 7/16/15 3:19 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
>>Louis has made much of the time factor in introducing and
>>distributing a new currency. I?m not clear as to what precisely he?s
>>referring to when he asserts there are years of complicated computer
>>programming required to implement the change.
>
>I recommend that you look at the comments thread under my article at
>Naked Capitalism for anything posted by me, Yves Smith, Nathan Tankus
>and someone named Clive.
Grexit is for tomorrow. It will very likely be forced on the Greeks, no matter
what you, Nathan, Yves, and Clive think about it. So the debate about its
effects is largely academic at this point. We?ll have the opportunity to test
how technically difficult it will be to partially or wholly reintroduce the
drachma in real life when the the time comes.
The immediate issue facing Syriza was whether to accept or reject the new round
of cuts, regressive tax increases, deregulation, and privatization demanded by
its creditors.
Were I in the Greek parliament last night, I would without hesitation have
stood with Konstantopoulou, Lafazanis, Stratoulis, and - to his credit -
Varoufakis, as well as the other three dozen Syriza lawmakers in voting against
these additional hardships the government agreed to impose on those it purports
to represent.
The logic of your position, and that of Panitch, Gindin, and Henwood, would
have seen you stand with the majority of Syriza MPs and minority of central
committee members who voted - ?with deep regret? or otherwise - for the
troika?s austerity program, in violation of both the Syriza program and the
July 5th referendum result.
At the end of the day, this is what this discussion has really been about.
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