Music to banksters ears..."sell the states assets"

[MindMover]

THENS — Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of Greece set out his fragile three-party coalition government’s policy platform on Friday, a bold program of selling government assets and reducing state spending.

But in a speech to Parliament, he also emphasized the need for measures to relieve a public weary of two years of economic austerity.

“Extreme injustices must be corrected,” he said, saying there should be no more wage or pension cuts. “We can’t have people who had homes now eating out of garbage bins; we can’t have suicides increasing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/business/global/in-greece-a-bold-plan-to-solve-the-debt-crisis.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesworld&seid=auto

[Art_from_Ark]

1. A "bold program of selling government assets..."?

What nonsense-- it's not "bold", it's "coerced".

[SunSeeker]

2. And music to Republican governors' ears.

They love selling off state assets at pennies on the dollar to their developer buddies. Here in CA, Gov. Schwarzenegger was going to sell off state office buildings to developers who would then turn around and lease them back to the state. That was one of the first things Gov. Brown blocked when he took office. Thank goodness Meg Whitman never became governor. We'd be exactly like Greece.