Reply #10: Every time something happens, always wonder yourself who is benefiting from this. [View All]

And voila, you start getting the picture.

Greece is not just an out-of-control clusterf*ck because they dare having a social safety network. Nothing of the sort. It is an engineered demolition charge intended to destabilize the EU. A strong Euro would put the last nail in the coffin in our status as a super power. The only thing we can export at this point, in which we have a clear leadership role (other than weapons, we're still the most advanced and the number 1 provider of armament to the world markets), is "creative" financial packages. And those debt packages depend exclusively on the strength/confidence in the dollar. A strong confidence in the Euro affects significantly the capacity of Wallstreet to sell and profit from their hubris.

The ironic/sad part is that had not the Central European Bank step in 2007/08 to buy untold billions of dollars, our economy would have been pretty much entered into a unrecoverable tailspin. Wether we like to recognize it or not, we are the proverbial scorpion who stings the frog who is trying to help him cross the river. We're sawing ill will at record pace: we pretty much make mortal enemies of most of the islamic world (Iraq and Afghanistan in particular), Chinese are positioning themselves into a direct collision path with us, and the Europeans will soon understand that friendship is a one way street for Americans the minute it becomes profitable for us to dump them.

We are a society which has evolved into a savage capitalist outlook, and savage capitalism is almost by definition sociopathic in nature. So yes, we are a functional sociopathic country. It is no coincidence we treat our weak and poor like utter ship... that is what a sociopath would do.