One of
the last prerequisites of the cruel neoliberal experiment: the
destruction of the agricultural sector
Since the
Greek economy has been systematically destroyed by the European Financial Dictatorship (EFD) and the IMF mafia the
last five years, transforming the country into a debt-enslaved
colony, the Greeks are left with little options inside this landscape
of total destruction.
While many
young, highly-educated Greeks fleeing abroad to seek a better future,
others, are turning to agricultural sector as one of the few economy
sectors that could provide a job and an opportunity of
self-employment.
Well, guess
what. The EFD-IMF representatives demand from the Greek government to
proceed in further raise in tax and social security contributions for
all professional categories, including farmers. The officials of the
Greek government supposedly negotiate with the representatives, but
there is no negotiation in reality. The prerequisites have been
already decided since last summer when Tsipras retreated and forced
to sign a 3rd catastrophic memorandum after the financial coup by the
ECB against Greece.
These raises
will be the definite professional death for many small-medium
farmers, who inside this landscape of destruction, already struggle
to survive. Everything proves that the policies promoted seek to
eliminate small-medium businesses to open the road to multinational
cartels in every sector.
As Stiglitz
describes in his book Globalization and Its Discontents :
Forcing a developing country to
open itself up to imported products that would compete with those
produced by certain of its industries, industries that were
dangerously vulnerable to competition from much stronger
counterpart industries in other countries, can have disastrous
consequences - socially and economically. Jobs have systematically
been destroyed - poor farmers in developing countries simply
couldn't compete with the highly subsidized goods from Europe and
America - before the countries' industrial and agricultural
sectors were able to grow strong and create new jobs. Even worse,
the IMF's insistence on developing countries maintaining tight
monetary policies has led to interest rates that would make job
creation impossible even in the best of circumstances.
And because trade liberalization
occurred before safety nets were put into place, those who lost
their jobs were forced into poverty. Liberalization has thus, too
often, not been followed by the promised growth, but by increased
misery. And even those who have not lost their jobs have been hit
by a heightened sense of insecurity.
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The Greek
farmers have started protesting and closing roads but the EFD-IMF representatives are
pushing Tsipras administration to pass all the "reforms" by
the end of February, early March. They start to put strict deadlines
because they want to secure the "successful" completion of
the Greek experiment by the end of 2016. EFD officials show that they
want IMF "technocratic experience" on destroying countries.
Wolfgang Schäuble repeatedly excluded the possibility of IMF
withdrawing from the "negotiations" with Greece.
This is
another fact that should alarm European people. So far, these
policies have been tested in developing economies and brought
absolute disaster. Now, despite all the catastrophe, the powerful
banking and corporate lobbyists are sending their armies of
technocrats to destroy a developed area. The disaster is obvious in
Greece, but the devastating landscape starts to spread also in the
eurozone periphery. Make no mistake: this is only a start. it will be
spread further.
If you are
still not convinced of what Europe has become, think about this:
Brussels bureaufascists have sent another ultimatum to Greece
concerning the refugees, demanding from the country to "maintain
proper border controls", or, will be excluded from the Schengen
zone.
And all
these, after they destroyed Greece economically, while decided to
give 3 billion euros to Turkey to deal with the refugee problem! They
lost control of other members who close borders and act
independently. They found again the usual suspect, the black sheep,
the easy victim: Greece. They've only learned how to serve their
lobby bosses. When a big problem emerged, they have been proved
totally unreliable to handle it.
No wonder
why euroscepticism rises rapidly in Europe. No wonder why we start
seeing scenes resembling the dark years of the past. Fascists proceed
in pogroms against refugees, even in the most progressive countries.
Racism and xenophobia grow rapidly, but the clowns who run the
euro-circus doesn't seem to realize, even now, where that circus is
heading ...
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