Mail från Alex Wilks - Avaaz.org <avaaz@avaaz.org> till alla vänner i Europa. EU där matchen står mellan folket och bankerna
30 september 2011 17:51
EU: People vs Banks
Dear friends across Europe,
The outrageous Greece bailout plan, written by bankers, floods banks
and speculators with free taxpayer money and leaves Greece high and dry. Our
finance ministers meet in 3 days, let's send them a massive call to go back to
the drawing board, and come back with a plan that bails out Greece, not the
banks:
| Unbelievable, they're doing
it again. Our governments are giving even more free taxpayer money to
banks!
Absolutely, we need to bailout Greece to save Greece, save
Europe, and save the Euro. But the current bailout makes us the taxpayers pay
back banks for 90% of their foolish investments. Greek people don't get a
cent of investment, and we give a ton of money to rich bankers. And even worse -
30% of our money will go to speculators who will actually make a massive
profit from gambling on a bailout!
How on earth did our governments write
a bailout plan that floods banks and speculators with our money and leaves
Greece with nothing? The answer -- they actually asked bankers to write the
agreement. Our finance ministers are meeting in 3 days to decide on this plan
-- let's send them and our parliaments a massive call to go back to the drawing
board, and bailout Greece, not the banks:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_people_vs_banks/?vl
At a time when money is tight everywhere and our most vital social
programs are being cut, governments are caving in to powerful banking
lobbies. But they say they are also worried that some banks can't absorb the
loss of their Greek investments and will fail if they don't get a bailout. But
if we get into trouble and ask a bank for help, they don't give us free money,
they give us a loan, or an investment. Now the banks are in trouble and coming
to us, why would we treat them any differently? Instead of giving away money,
let's loan to or invest in the banks, and ask them to pay us the taxpayers back
at a healthy rate of interest!
This is what Gordon Brown did in the
UK and Obama did in the US - when banks were in danger of failing, they didn't
bail them out with free money, they bought in with loans and investments. And as
soon as a year later, the taxpayers made a profit from the deal! This deal is
corruption, pure and simple. There's no public interest argument for giving
banks and speculators a massive windfall like this, and there's every reason
to try and protect public finances. Instead of giving that money away, we can
invest it, in Greece, and in our own societies' abilities to recover and rebuild
from the financial crisis. It's time for our politicians to stop hiding behind
complex agreements written by bankers - the game is up - let's tell them no
to this outrageous bailout, and ask them to come back again with something
sensible:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_people_vs_banks/?vl
Far too often, our societies' economic future, and our children's
possibilities, are decided in back rooms by corrupt interests that are looking
after profit, not people. This is one of those times. The bankers and the
politicians they own think all this is too complex for the public to understand
or even be interested. Let's show them how wrong they are.
With
hope,
Alex, Iain, Antonia, Emma, Alice, Maria Paz, Pascal and the whole
Avaaz team
More info:
NYT -- Hedge funds look to profit from Greek
bonds
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/business/global/hedge-funds-betting-on-lowly-greek-bonds.html?_r=1&sq=landon%20thomas&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all
BBC
-- Q and A: Greek debt crisis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13798000
The
Guardian -- Cuts will not end the crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/04/public-investment-bank-for-britain
Reuters
-- Bankers - Don't touch Greek deal now, write off more
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/28/uk-bankers-greek-deal-idUKTRE78R28120110928
Time
-- Greece Debt Crisis: Have the Cuts Gone Too Deep?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2094562,00.html
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