Η μπαλάντα του Παπανδρέου…

 Athenian Rhapsody Διαβάστε την ραψωδία που αφιερώνουν οι FinancialTimes , στον κ. ΠαπανδρέουΗ ΑΠΟΛΥΤΗ ΞΕΦΤΙΛΑTo the tune of Queen’s Bohemian RhapsodyAthenian Rhapsody (The Ballad of Papandreou)Is this our real debt?Is this just fantasy?Won in a landslideNow I’m facing austerityI opened the booksAnd said “are you kidding me?”Did what we did to get into the EurozoneSo there was never a need to growEuro’s high, rates stayed lowAnything to enter, didn’t really matter to Greece, to GreecePapa, just told the truthNo one’s paying any taxAnd my colleagues here are hacksPapa, Greece had everythingBut the bankers came and took it all awayPapa, ooh ooh ooh oohGoldman told us it would workand now I sit here like a jerkThey were wrong, they were wrong, that swap illusion’s shatteredToo late, the market crashedMy country’s on the brinkAnd my bond spreads really stinkGoodbye to the good life – it’s got to goI never thought our bonds could trade so lowPapa, ooh ooh ooh ooh – (anyway my yields go)No one wants to buyAnd some folks wish they never had bought at all…We need some euros need some euros very fastMykonos, Skiathos, you can sell them to ChinaDSK and Regling – say our debt is frightening – Hey,Papandreou, Papandreou,Papandreou, Papandreou,Papandreou runs the show – he’s out of dough oh oh ohHe’s a professor from MinnesotaHe’s a professor leading his countryFound that the Greeks had been cooking the booksBail in – bail out – will you bail us out?ECB. Nein! We will not bail you outBail us outIMF. We will not bail you outBail us out PSI. We will not bail you outBail us outWill not bail you outBail us out (never)Never bail you outBail us outNever bail you out – ooh ooh oohNein, nein nein nein nein nein nein!Oh mama Merkel, mama Merkel, mama Merkel we’ll defaultThe Bundestag has no package set aside for GreeceFor GreeceFor GreeceChina: So you think you can stiff me and just say goodbye?So you think I’ll just hold and continue to buy?You’ll pay us – we’ll want more than Piraeus Ships, airports and banks, as for your unions, no thanks!Ooh yeah, ooh yeahOnce we had an empireThat is history How did this transpire? – back to Minnesota for me.Goodbye to the Euro…http://exomatiakaivlepo.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post_8185.htmlFiled under: ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΟΤΗΤΑ