On Friday he began accusing the New Democracy party of what he said was catastrophic fiscal management, but he also had the audacity to note that in the past ND also maintained its clientelism, which resulted in Greece having to apply for a bailout.
Of course the minor detail that he was already in consultations -and worked underground- with the IMF prior to the bailouts as revealed by the former head of the IMF himself D. Strauss-Khan is a detail that George hopes will go unnoticed. (Wishful thinking of course)
Addressing the Symi Symposium which is being held on the island of Spetses, Papandreou said that in order to truly exit the crisis, Greece must first do away with public sector clientelism.
We agree of course, but again George seems to forget that most of the public sector was hired under all the PASOK governments before him. In fact, the amount of workers in the public sector skyrocketed under his own father's second term in office. But again... we understand that he sometimes forgets to note certain things because as we said earlier his case is quite unique.
During his speech he criticized the dominant pro-austerity camp in the EU, arguing that fiscal discipline and austerity are the solution to the crisis when little has been done to promote the financial and political union between EU member states. Following this he once again defended his proposal for a referendum, insisting that the active participation of the people in established procedures are paramount in a representative democracy.
True... But as revealed by Panos Kammenos, the proposal for the referendum simply fattened the wallets of Papandreou 's hedge fund buddies (Soros and friends), and damaged Greece's credibility on the international markets even more. If that was Papandreou's objective then we say job well done.
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