Reply To: Austerity has failed. An open letter from Piketty to Merkel

[Virgil]

I just found this at the head of my news page.

The latest: Tsipras, in personal speech, admits mistakes

12:35 a.m.
In a speech with a strongly personal tone, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he negotiated as hard as he could and admits his government had made mistakes during his barely six-month tenure as he fought to win bailout funds for his debt-ridden country.
Speaking in a late-night parliament session, Tsipras described the last few months as a war in which difficult battles were fought and some were lost. “Now I have the feeling we’ve reached the demarked line. From here on there is a minefield,” he said.
He added that he doesn’t have the right to hide from the Greek people that the measures Greece must take are far from his left-wing party’s pre-election pledges.

In other words he was lying to the people before they voted on the referendum when he said a majority NO vote on it would give Greece a stronger bargaining position… Or he didn’t know WTF he was talking about…